Avian Flu Discovered at Texas Chicken Farm
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Bird flu was found at a chicken farm in southern Texas, the fourth U.S. state affected by a strain of the virus not harmful to humans but devastating to poultry producers, state officials said.
The Texas Animal Health Commission said it had quarantined a flock of 7,000 chickens in Gonzales County near San Antonio after the birds tested positive for the H5N2 strain of avian influenza, a less-virulent version of the disease that has killed at least 22 people in Asia.
Those birds probably will be killed as a precaution to prevent the spread of the illness, which can kill birds, an official said.
An additional 8,000 birds at a building on the same poultry farm may also be destroyed even though no bird flu was detected in that flock, he said.
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