Bird flu cases on the rise, as illness confirmed at Georgia commercial poultry farm

Bird flu cases on the rise, as illness confirmed at Georgia commercial poultry farm

A Georgia chicken producer with 140,000 broiler chickens tests positive for bird flu, prompting quarantine measures within a 6.2-mile radius of the facility.

HPAI Confirmed in Commercial Poultry Flock in Gordon County

GORDON COUNTY, GA – Today, the Georgia Department of Agriculture, together with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA – APHIS), confirmed a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) at a commercial poultry operation in Gordon County, Georgia. This marks the third confirmed HPAI case in a commercial operation and the fifth overall detection in the state this year. Since the nationwide avian i…