(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government confirmed the presence ofhighly pathogenic H7N8 avian influenza in a turkey flock inIndiana, the country’s first case commercial since the end of lastyear’s outbreak that led to the destruction of 50 millionanimals.
|The strain discovered in Dubois County is different from thosethat caused last year’s outbreak, the U.S. Department ofAgriculture’s Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service saidFriday in a statement on its website. Federal and state authoritiesare monitoring and testing the nearby area, it said.
|U.S. poultry producers have been on edge after a recent cases inFrance. The U.S. outbreak, which ended in June, led to record-highegg prices and imports and cut turkey supplies for the Thanksgivingholiday.
|Related: Amid bird flu threat, U.S. producers say no thanksto vaccine
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