Iowa identifies second dairy with bird flu, expands testing

(Iowa Capital Dispatch) Iowa state agriculture officials will test dairy farms for bird flu if they are near a poultry flock that is infected by the disease, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Friday.

The new surveillance measure is meant to help reveal the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Iowa, which has been detected in a massive chicken flock, a turkey flock and two dairy farms in recent weeks in northwest Iowa.

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