Q. What is USDA's response process?
A. As part of the existing USDA avian influenza response plans, federal and state partners as well as industry are responding quickly and decisively to these outbreaks by following these five basic steps:
1. Quarantine — restricting movement of poultry and poultry-moving equipment into and out of the control area;
2. Eradicate — humanely euthanizing the affected flock(s);
3. Monitor region— testing wild and domestic birds in a broad area around the quarantine area;
4. Disinfect — killing the virus in the affected flock locations; and. . .
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