Bird flu found on poultry farm in Indiana, nearly 30,000 turkeys killed to contain spread

 US poultry producers are tightening safety measures for their flocks as disease experts warn that wild birds are likely spreading a highly lethal form of avian flu across the country.

Indiana on Wednesday reported highly pathogenic bird flu on a commercial turkey farm, leading China, South Korea and Mexico to ban poultry imports from the state. The outbreak put the US industry on edge at a time that labor shortages are fueling food inflation.

The United States is the world’s largest producer and second-largest exporter of poultry meat, according to the U.S. government...link

As soon as the state received the results, it issued a quarantine at the site and all those farms within a 10-kilometer radius. That includes 17 other operations, Derrer Spears said. She could not give exact numbers on how many birds were impacted, but it’s likely more than a few hundred thousand. 

Dubois County is the top turkey-producing county in Indiana. And Indiana is the third-largest turkey-producing state in the country, the No. 1 state in duck production and the second largest in table eggs and egg-laying chickens...link