Source: Chuck Abbott, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 6/23/22

While this year’s outbreaks of bird flu, the worst in seven years, are following the usual pattern of dissipating during hot weather, it’s too early to declare the threat over, said the Agriculture Department. Forty million birds, mostly chickens and turkeys, have died of the viral disease or during cullings of infected flocks since early February. The most recent outbreak was in a backyard flock of 30 birds in Yakima, Washington, on June 14. Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been identified only 12 times so far in June, according to a USDA database.

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