Deadly bird flu shows up in South Dakota, 5th Minnesota farm

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

BY CARSON WALKER AND STEVE KARNOWSKI

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A bird flu strain that's deadly to poultry has spread to a second turkey farm in one of the top turkey-producing counties of Minnesota, state and federal officials said Thursday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed the H5N2 strain in a flock of 71,000 turkeys in Stearns County, the Minnesota Board of Animal Health said. That brings the number of Minnesota turkey farms where the strain has been detected to five, officials said.

The strain also has shown up in a commercial turkey flock in South Dakota. So far, the total number of outbreaks in the Midwest has reached 10 and led to the deaths of 314,000 birds since early March.

Earlier, the USDA confirmed the H5N2 strain in a flock of 53,000 turkeys in Beadle County of eastern South Dakota, and a fourth Minnesota case in the southwest part of the state, in Nobles County, involving a commercial turkey farm with about 21,000 birds.

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FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2005 file photo, turkeys are pictured at a turkey farm near Sauk Centre, Minn. A bird flu strain that’s deadly to poultry has shown up in a commercial turkey flock in South Dakota and a fourth turkey farm in Minnesota, state and federal agencies confirmed Thursday, April 2, 2015, bringing the total number of outbreaks in the Midwest to 9 and leading to the death of 314,000 birds since early March. (AP Photo/Janet Hostetter,File)

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[hedgehog]

1. What people think of when they hear turkey farm:

what a real turkey farm looks like:

[jwirr]

4. The overcrowding is most likely the problem. We raise 12 birds a year in the style you show in your

first picture.

I wonder if it is safe for us to buy baby turkeys this year? Last year it was baby pigs that no one could get because Iowa had some kind of disease. They also raise their hogs in a fashion that is overcrowded.

[cynzke]

2. PRIORITIES!

Drought in CA, the ninth largest agricultural producer on the planet. Bird Flu threatening poultry production. Bees dying off. Oceans dying. Population out pacing planet resources. But hey, in the short time we may have left, at least Indiana will be safe from the Gays!!!!!

[AngryDem001]

3. Don't you know?

Gays are the CAUSE of all those problems!

[NickB79]

5. My mom might be looking at some unwanted time off from her job

These farms supply the turkey butchering and processing plant she works at.

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. Beadle County, South Dakota, is my official residence.

The main industrial gigs there are the Jack Links beef jerky plant in Alpena and the Dakota Provision turkey plant outside Huron.

You can work the jerk or you can work the turk.

Funny, the local paper doesn't have anything about this.

I read it online from Northern California. For some reason, I seem to spend more time here than back there.