CHICAGO (Reuters) – A chicken trade group in Kentucky has tested positive for a highly lethal form of bird flu, officials said on Monday, magnifying an outbreak that threatens the U.S. poultry industry.
Infections in chickens raised for meat are expected to trigger further restrictions on US poultry exports after buyers including China and Korea limited purchases from Indiana last week due to an outbreak at a commercial turkey farm in the state.
Broilers in the town of Fulton, Kentucky, located near the Tennessee border, were infected with the same highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian flu as turkeys in Indiana, Kentucky officials said.
They are awaiting final laboratory confirmation of another suspected outbreak among turkeys in Webster County, Kentucky.
Birds from infected groups will be culled and will not enter the food system, state officials said.
“We are working diligently to prevent this virus from spreading to other poultry facilities,” said Katie Flynn, a veterinarian at the State of Kentucky.
The United States is the world’s largest producer and second largest exporter of poultry meat, according to the US government. Kentucky has claimed that it is the seventh largest producer of chicken meat.
(Reporting by Tom Polansek)
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