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The avian flu outbreak has reached Virginia, leading to about 36,800 turkeys being euthanized in Rockingham County. Photo by Associated Press/Janet Hostetter
Mar 30, 2023

Avian flu outbreaks strike Va. farms

For almost a year, Virginia poultry farms managed to avoid the nation’s worst-ever avian flu outbreak, but in January, the virus struck a commercial turkey operation in Rockingham County, prompting the killings of 25,300 birds. Five days later, 10,700 more turkeys were euthanized in Rockingham, and in February, 800 birds at an Alexandria live market […]

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