HPAI confirmed in a Missouri commercial chicken flock

Missouri’s Director of Agriculture says they’ve established a control and surveillance zone in Southeastern Missouri following the confirmation of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a flock of commercial broiler chickens.

Chris Chinn tells Brownfield the affected premises are under quarantine and the birds will be depopulated.   “There are approximately 240,000 birds,” she says.  “There are six barns that sit together where the positive test was, and another six barns close by.  Both sites will be depopulated to be preventative. 

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