I think this is more widespread than we knew and many mor chickens are being killed then we knew!
Quarantine set up to halt spread of avian flu strain
Associated Press
DOVER, Del. — Officials responded to a new discovery of bird flu Tuesday by ordering a quarantine of 80 farms and the slaughter of {{72,000}} more chickens. The swift action was aimed at averting more bans on U.S. exports.
The second case of disease was found in a commercial flock of roaster-type chickens in northern Sussex County, at least five miles away from the farm where the first flock tested positive last week.
The chickens at the second farm were killed Tuesday afternoon, said Delaware Secretary of Agriculture Michael Scuse.
Perdue Farms said it had destroyed the 72,000 chickens to prevent the spread of the disease. The company said the flock was believed to have been infected by a nearby flock of chickens that was raised for the New York City live markets.
The first flock found to be infected was raised for those live markets, state officials have said.
All sales of live poultry in Delaware, all sales or auctions of farm equipment and all farmer and grower-related meetings have been canceled. {{About 80 farms within a six-mile radius of the two farms will be quarantined, state officials said.}}
{{{"This now is a very, very serious matter.}}} We have a multibillion dollar industry at stake," Scuse said.
Seven nations, including some of America's largest export customers, have banned at least some poultry imports from the United States because of the bird flu cases.
Annual poultry exports total more than $1.7 billion, about $1.4 billion of it in shipments of broiler chickens. Countries that have banned U.S. imports, including China and Japan, imported at least $245 million in U.S. broiler chicken in the past 11 months, said David Harvey, an Agriculture Department economist.
{{If the avian influenza does not spread,}} the impact of the bans could be short-lived, said Richard Lobb, a spokesman for the National Chicken Council, a producers and processors trade group. But U.S. officials must show the world that they have the disease properly diagnosed and are eradicating it, Lobb said. In previous poultry disease outbreaks, foreign officials have ended bans quickly after they were assured that their flocks would be safe from contagion if they resumed imports, he said.
On Tuesday, China joined Poland, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea in {{banning U.S. poultry imports.}}{{{ A ban by Russia,}}} America's largest poultry export market, affects only imports from Delaware.
Agricultural attaches in U.S. embassies will provide their foreign counterparts with results of tests on the type of bird flu found in Delaware, said Agriculture Department spokeswoman Julie Quick. The results could confirm that the Delaware strain is not the type that devastates flocks, she said.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2397168 IMO this is terrorism because they are satisfying their object of sickness and hitting the economy! PETA did complain about how chickens are raised/treated , so the terrorism could still be domestic.