AUBURN, Ala. — This year's massive and costly outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza has slowed considerably during the heat of summer, but as temperatures turn cooler this fall, the threat is expected to increase.
Auburn University poultry scientists Joe Giambrone and Ken Macklin are using funding from the U.S. egg industry to investigate how the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, which has decimated poultry populations in the Midwest in the past nine months, spreads to poultry farms.
The bird flu virus, as it is more commonly known, is carried by infected but asymptomatic free-flying ducks, geese and. . .
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