By Hobey Bauhan
Special to Poultry Times
HARRISONBURG, Va. — More than 13 years ago now, 2002 began routinely for the Virginia Poultry Federation (VPF). I busied myself representing the poultry industry at the Virginia General Assembly. We planned annual events such as our Youth Convention for FFA and 4-H kids, the Virginia Poultry Health and Management Seminar and the Friends of Feathers Golf Tournament.
Suddenly, in March of that year our world turned upside down when a case of Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza (LPAI), serotype H7N2, infected a turkey farm in Rockingham County. The rest. . .