U.S. Poultry Seen Facing Largest Bird Flu Outbreak Since ’83
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The U.S. poultry industry may be facing the biggest outbreak of deadly bird flu in more than three decades, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health.
“They are dealing with a level of exposure that is probably unprecedented back to the outbreak in 1983 in Delaware and Pennsylvania,” said Brian Evans, a deputy director general at the Paris-based intergovernmental group known by its French acronym OIE.