Georgia rooster farm stories chicken flu outbreak affecting 140,000 birds

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A Georgia rooster producer is working to cease the unfold of the Extremely Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), extra generally generally known as chicken flu, after changing into the third business operation within the state to have examined constructive this yr.

The Gordon County producer observed indicators of sickness on Wednesday and reported it to the Georgia Poultry Laboratory Network on Thursday, in accordance with a Georgia Division of Agriculture press launch.

The next day, Georgia Division of Agriculture's Emergency Administration and State Agricultural Response Groups "deployed to the affected premises to conduct depopulation, disposal, cleansing, and disinfection."

The ability housed about 140,000 broiler chickens.

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Staff pack cartons of eggs at Dawn Farms on February 18, 2025 in Petaluma, California. As egg costs proceed to skyrocket because of the avian flu outbreak, egg farmers are having to speculate hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in biosecurity efforts to maintain their flocks protected. (Justin Sullivan)

For a minimum of the subsequent two weeks, state officers say, all business poultry operations inside a 6.2-mile radius are below quarantine and can bear surveillance testing.

"This poses a critical risk to Georgia's #1 trade and to the hundreds of Georgians whose livelihoods depend upon poultry manufacturing," Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler J Harper stated in an announcement. "Our staff is working across the clock to comprise the unfold and shield our flocks."

Rows of uncooked chickens are positioned on rotating spits inside a glass rotisserie oven at a meals stall in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on September 9, 2025. (Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto)

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Final week, the College of Minnesota's Heart for Infectious Illness Analysis & Coverage Analysis and Innovation Workplace (CIDRAP) reported a business turkey farm in Swift County "that homes 34,000 birds is the location of the newest outbreak to hit the highest turkey-producing state within the nation."

A commercial egg-layer farm in Indiana with practically 20,000 birds additionally just lately reported a chicken flu outbreak, CIDRAP reported.

ISA Brown chickens in a rooster coop at an egg farm in Mason, Michigan, US, on Monday, March 3, 2025. (Emily Elconin/Bloomberg)

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HPAI was first confirmed in a business flock within the U.S. on Feb. 8, 2022, in accordance with the U.S. Division of Agriculture Animal and Plant Inspection Service (APHIS).