9 more Indiana turkey farms infected with bird flu

Associated Press ^ | Jan 16, 2016 6:42 PM EST

[Olog-hai]

Birds from nine more commercial turkey farms in Indiana have tested positive for bird flu. [...]

Authorities confirmed Friday that a commercial flock in Dubois County Indiana was infected with the H7N8 strain, which is different than the H5N2 virus that led to the deaths of about 48 million turkeys and chickens last summer. ...

[sagar]

Can’t these morons keep the food supply safe?

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...not because this is expected to jump to humans, but because it is infectious, and may affect certain food supplies in the near future.

[SkyDancer]

It’s caused by migratory birds entering the enclosures and defecating there or during a fly over.

[glock rocks]

Time to stock up the freezer on chicken, tout suite, before the inevitable price rise.

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the ping. Too many centralized farming operations today.

[Smokin' Joe]

I went to college in the Shenandoah Valley--huge poultry farms there, too. It is an operation that runs on the economy of scale, and those farmers generally take serious measures to prevent just the sort of thing going on with these farms.

Turkeys, though, spend a fair amount of time outside, and other (wild) birds can bring the disease in from elsewhere.

It is hard to be a small producer and still comply with all the regulations and rules involved...so, big farming operations.

[disndat]

Hens and chicks hardest hit.

[Olog-hai]

Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.

Ninth plank of communism, from the Manifesto. Take note that the centralization problem with respect to farming hit China before it hit here.