AR-News: (US MD) Bird flu forces killing of poultry

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By Meredith Cohn and Chris Guy
Sun Staff
Originally published March 8, 2004
More than 300,000 chickens on Maryland's Eastern Shore were destroyed 
yesterday to stem a fresh outbreak of avian influenza. The flu has infected birds in 
Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey in recent weeks and is threatening the 
heart of the tri-state Delmarva economy.

The most recent outbreak - discovered Saturday in Pocomoke City near the 
Virginia line - is the first on a commercial farm in Maryland, where poultry is 
responsible for about a third of the state's $1.4 billion-a-year agriculture 
industry.

The flu strain is not considered harmful to humans. But authorities fear it 
could mutate into a more dangerous variant, such as the one that caused a 
number of recent human deaths in Asia.








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