Non-pathogenic or low-pathogenic avian influenza, which strain poses minimal risk to human health, was recently discovered on a single broiler/breeder poultry farm in western Kentucky, according to a news report from www.lex18.com.
The farm has been quarantined by State Veterinarian Robert C. Stout. A location producing hatching eggs for Perdue Farms Inc., the company plans to depopulate 20,000 chickens on the farm.
The Kentucky Department of Agriculture is surveying backyard flocks within a two-mile radius of the farm.
"There is no evidence that any infected poultry are in the human food supply as a result of this infection,” Stout said. “We will do what is necessary to minimize the disruption to overseas trade."
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