Around 400,000 birds destroyed in northwestern Iowa in state's sixth bird flu infection
The fourth detection was in Sac County in northwestern Iowa on Feb. 19, where 29,665 turkeys were destroyed and the second in ...
In protecting chickens, we protect ourselves from future bird flu outbreaks
The bird flu outbreak is largely due to the close quarters and poor conditions of farmed animals in factory farming ...
40 birds in Portage test positive for bird flu
Avian flu, which has impacted more than 4 million birds statewide, has hit Portage County, where 40 birds have tested ...
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Tracy Beckman: This chicken-and-egg problem has its solution in the past
If it's cheap food we want, and security from disease, we should go back to the old model — once again having many small ...
A new vaccine for bird flu has conditional approval for chickens. What to know
While the company has conditional approval, the USDA will still have to approve its larger use before farmers can give it to their flocks, according to Science Magazine. The report added that if bird ...
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Portage County farmers aim to keep chickens safe from bird flu, disease, predators
In Portage County, farmers are concerned about bird flu, but with no local cases, they worry more about rising costs and ...
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Opinion | An overlooked answer to the bird flu crisis
Efforts to address bird flu mostly focus on tightening up farm facilities, killing infected animals and frantically tracking a rapidly branching tree of viral strains. Yet most media coverage fails to ...