2023-11-25 16:46:00
Since the start of 2023, 8.1 million U.S. poultry have been culled to combat the spread of the disease, including 5.8 million this month.
More than a million chickens slaughtered. An egg farm in Ohio, in the northeastern United States, has been forced to cull 1.3 million poultry in the fight once morest the bird flu virus.
The United States Department of Agriculture explained that a case of this highly contagious disease was detected on the farm during the week, according to the AP agency.
58 million in 2022
Since the start of the year, 8.1 million birds have been culled to combat the spread of bird flu in the country, including 5.8 million in the past month. Egg farms are the most affected.
This is the second farm to slaughter more than a million birds this month, report USA Todayadding that a farm in Minnesota also killed 940,000.
Although contamination is significant, the epidemic is less severe than last year since in 2022, nearly 58 million poultry had to be slaughtered.
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