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State and federal authorities are working to contain Georgia’s first bird flu outbreak of the year in a commercial poultry operation. Ducks at a commercial breeding farm in Sumter County tested ...
Bird flu was first identified on South Georgia in October 2023, in the large scavenging seabird known as the brown skua, with detections in kelp gulls shortly after. Then, in January this year ...
The Georgia Department of Agriculture and USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed that a duck breeding facility in south Georgia tested positive for Avian Influenza.
Georgia authorities said they were unable to find any other confirmed bird flu cases after the state sustained its first outbreak a month ago at a commercial poultry operation.
Researchers swabbed populations of brown skua birds on Bird Island, South Georgia after reports ... Scientists are concerned after confirming the first-ever known cases of the bird flu in the ...
For the first time since the 2022 countrywide outbreak, bird flu hit a poultry producer in Georgia, ... including among 13 chickens and ducks earlier this month in Clayton County south of Atlanta.
GREENVILLE, S.C. - Bird flu has now been found in flocks in both Georgia and South Carolina, officials said Friday. The latest Georgia case was confirmed Friday in a commercial poultry operation ...
Bird flu does not pose a risk to the food supply, ... Bird flu found in south Georgia duck flock; estimated 30,000 birds to be killed to prevent spread. November 24, 2023 at 11:20 am EST.
SUMTER COUNTY, Ga. - Georgia agriculture officials have confirmed the first cases of avian flu for 2023 at a commercial duck breeding operation. On Wednesday, the Georgia Department of Agriculture ...
Bird flu has been confirmed in 10 penguins on South Georgia, one of the world's great wildlife havens. Avian influenza had already infected other seabirds and mammals on the British Overseas ...
The Georgia Department of Agriculture and USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed that a duck breeding facility in south Georgia tested positive for Avian Influenza.