Chicago, IL
Bird flu 2022: Crews dispose of nearly 3M flu-stricken chickens from Wisconsin farm
Crews loaded wheelbarrows filled with useless chickens into dump vans to be taken off-site from the Chilly Spring Egg Farm.
State and federal officers are attempting to include an outbreak of extremely contagious fowl flu on the farm.
Chicken flu: Almost 12.6M chickens, turkeys in at the least 8 states killed or will likely be destroyed quickly
Almost three-million chickens are being destroyed.
The useless birds are being taken to a area — owned by the identical farm — eight miles away to be composted.
The state says composting is probably the most environment friendly and environmentally accountable technique of disposal.
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The fowl flu is of low danger to people, however a excessive danger to the poultry trade.
A 2015 outbreak precipitated greater than $650 billion in losses.