facebook-pixel

Deadly bird flu reappears in US commercial poultry flocks in Utah and South Dakota

Disease found at Utah farm with more than 141,000 birds.

(Charlie Neibergall | AP) A turkey stands in a barn, Aug. 10, 2015, on a turkey farm near Manson, Iowa. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that avian influenza (bird flu), which is deadly to commercial poultry, was confirmed in a flock of 47,300 turkeys in Jerauld County of South Dakota last Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, and at a farm with 141,800 birds in Sanpete County of Utah last Friday, Oct. 6.