South Dakota’s state veterinarian says their avian influenza situation has been improving. Dr. Mendel Miller with the South Dakota Animal Industry Board says, “We haven’t had a new positive for, I think we’re going on eight days now..
Highly pathogenic avian influenza is having a big impact on South Dakota poultry operations. Dr. Mendel Miller with the South Dakota Animal Industry Board says, “We’re actually at 22 cases now, and we’ve had new cases almost every da.
A bird flu outbreak is forcing farmers to put down millions of turkeys and chickens in eight states. The discovery of the disease in an egg-laying farm in Iowa meant that 5.3 million chickens were scheduled for euthanization on that farm alone.