DARKE COUNTY — Cases of high-borne avian influenza, also known as bird flu, continue to rise among Miami Valley poultry, with more than 2 million new cases confirmed this month.
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News Center 7’s Amber Jenkins speaks with the Ohio Department of Agriculture about the outbreak. She’ll have the latest tonight on News Center 7 at 6:00 p.m.
More than 1.9 million commercial chickens and 72,282 commercial turkeys in Darke and Mercer counties have been confirmed positive for avian influenza by the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in 11 reports since Jan. 9, according to the Department of Health. Ohio Agriculture (ODA).
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All the birds had to be “depopulated”. As News Center 7 has reported in previous bird flu outbreaks, ODA’s procedure is to quarantine the affected facility and “depopulate,” or kill, the birds to prevent the disease from spreading.
This comes after more than 930,000 commercial chickens in Darke County tested positive for bird flu and were depopulated in December.
The exact location of these chickens and turkeys in Darke and Mercer counties was not initially disclosed.
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