Dairy farmers within the United States are elevating their defenses to attempt to comprise the unfold of chook flu: banning guests, reducing down timber to discourage wild birds from touchdown, and disinfecting autos coming onto their land.
South Dakota on Thursday turned the eighth state to seek out extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a dairy herd, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported infections in North Carolina, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Michigan, Idaho and New Mexico.