U.S. surveillance efforts have identified the bird flu in wild
birds in a number of states including New Hampshire, where it was
detected this month in 20 wild ducks
The flu was detected in a non-commercial backyard flock of birds
… New
York state officials have quarantined the site in Suffolk County and
birds on the affected properties “will be depopulated to prevent the
spread of disease,” said the USDA in a statement, noting that birds from the flock will not enter the food system.
The
virus has been detected at commercial turkey farms in southern Indiana,
a flock of commercial broiler chickens in Kentucky and a backyard flock
of mixed species birds in northern Virginia. …
