The World Organization for Animal Health announced March 9, that avian influenza was detected on a chicken farm in Hopkins County, Texas. This marks the first outbreak on a chicken farm in the U.S. in 2018, and the second overall outbreak in the country since the first week of March when a turkey farm was reported to be infected.
The first case of the virus was in Missouri, approximately 350 miles away from the chicken farm in Texas. Chances are slim that the outbreaks are related, but it is possible since wild birds can carry the disease across the. . .
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