Missouri turkey farm quarantined after bird flu detected
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March 9, 2018
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the first commercial case of bird flu in the country this year has been confirmed at a turkey farm in southwestern Missouri.
USDA spokeswoman Lyndsay Cole said Thursday that the H7N1 avian influenza, a low-pathogenic form, was detected through pre-slaughter testing on a farm in Jasper County that houses 20,000 turkeys. The state put the farm under quarantine.
Cole says two other commercial poultry properties within 6 miles of the farm tested negative for influenza.
The low-pathogenic flu is different from the high-pathogenic virus t...
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