About 29,000 birds have been depopulated since highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza was discovered this week in southern Indiana.
Denise Derrer Spears, public information director with the Indiana State Board of Animal Health, says samples were collected and sent to the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University after 100 birds died on a commercial turkey farm in Dubois County on Monday.
She says because the entire flock – 29,000 birds – was depopulated, no known infected birds are on the farm as of today.
