Iowa’s bird flu death toll tops 13 million - Raw Story

Two more poultry flocks in Iowa — including one with more than 5 million egg-laying chickens — were infected by a deadly and highly contagious avian influenza, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship reported Friday.The new detections of the v…

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