Health & Fitness
Bird Flu In Cecil County Confirmed: US Department of Agriculture
Authorities say a commercial poultry operation in Maryland is being decontaminated after a highly pathogenic disease was detected.
CECIL COUNTY, MD — A property in Cecil County has been quarantined after federal officials found a highly pathogenic avian influenza in a flock of commercial layer chickens there.
The tests came from an unnamed facility where birds on the property will be "depopulated to prevent the spread of the disease," the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Saturday. "Birds from the flock will not enter the food system."
It is not an immediate public health concern, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a statement.
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