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Chickens are highly susceptible to avian flu, but a few precautions can keep them and their humans safe.
Avian influenza has been spreading at higher levels worldwide over the past five years, including in wild birds and poultry farms in Europe. The virus has occasionally jumped from birds into ...
The Arizona Department of Agriculture, working closely with the USDA detected a strain of avian influenza in milk in Maricopa county. Risk to public is low.
ABC15 inquired with Hickman's Family Farms about the layoff of over 80 employees due to the avian flu, which resulted in the euthanasia of most egg-laying hens.
Hickman’s Family Farms is beginning to lay off employees, after avian flu forced the company to euthanize about 95% of its egg-laying hen population, about 6 million birds in all.