CHICAGO: A business chicken run in Kentucky tried positive for an exceptionally deadly type of bird influenza, authorities said on Monday, enlarging an episode that compromises the US poultry industry.
Diseases in the chickens being raised for meat are set to set off more limitations on US poultry sends out, after purchasers like China and Korea restricted buys from Indiana last week because of an episode at a business turkey ranch there.
The oven chickens in Fulton County, Kentucky, situated close to the line with Tennessee, were contaminated with a similar H5N1 strain of exceptionally pathogenic avian influenza as the turkeys in Indiana, Kentucky authorities said.
They are anticipating last lab affirmation of one more speculated episode among turkeys in Webster County, Kentucky.
Birds from tainted groups will be separated and won't enter the food framework, state authorities said.
"We are working tirelessly to keep this infection from spreading to other poultry premises," said Katie Flynn, Kentucky's state veterinarian.
Government and state specialists are trying business and terrace poultry rushes close by in Kentucky and Tennessee.
The illness was likewise distinguished in a patio rush of birds in Fauquier County, Virginia, that have as of now been separated, the US Department of Agriculture said. The cases don't present a quick general wellbeing concern, the office said.
Wild birds are believed to spread the infection, after handfuls tried positive for seasonal influenza along the US East Coast.
