Bird Flu Hits Another Tennessee Chicken Farm Linked to Tyson
- Affected farm is less than 2 miles from prior incident
- Flock contained 55,000 chickens; birds will be destroyed
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A second case of bird flu in Tennessee has been reported at a chicken farm, heightening the threat from the disease in the U.S. southeast, the country’s biggest poultry region.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza -- which can be fatal to domesticated poultry -- was found at a commercial chicken-breeder farm in Lincoln County, Tennessee, the state’s agriculture department said Thursday in a statement. The case comes after a chicken farm that was less than 2 miles (3 kilometers) away had reported the deadly virus in early March, the first incident in the U.S. in more than a year. Both farms were contracted with Tyson Foods Inc., according to company spokesman Worth Sparkman.