CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new finding by government and academic researchers at Mississippi State University should help put turkey producers' minds at ease about the possibility of the airborne transmission of a common bacterial agent for infectious sinusitis to their flocks from nearby poultry operations. The researchers found that, even within a single tunnel-ventilated poultry house, the agent, Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG), was unable to be transmitted even a short distance down-airstream to spread infection.
The new research findings of Dr. Joseph Purswell et al., appear in the December issue of Poultry Science, a journal published by the Poultry Science. . .

