Pennsylvania
Pa. leads nation in avian flu cases
HARRISBURG (KDKA) – Pennsylvania leads the nation in avian flu circumstances.
Current circumstances in Lancaster, Chester, Bucks and Northumberland counties account for many of the surge.
Hundreds of thousands of birds have died all because the commonwealth approaches the one-year anniversary of its first case.
John Boney of the Penn State Extension says in case you’ve been exterior — mountain climbing, biking, strolling a canine — change your garments and footwear earlier than being round poultry. That is the easiest way to maintain it from spreading.
“We’re attempting to succeed in everybody from the parents with birds of their yard or passion after which all the way in which up by means of people who have one million or extra animals,” Boney stated.
He says anybody with a sick fowl ought to name the Division of Agriculture.
Specialists are cautiously optimistic that hotter, dryer climate and the top of migration season will assist cease the unfold of this virus.
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