Alabama chicken farm quarantined, 48,000 birds killed after highly pathogenic avian flu detected
While considered low risk to humans, HPAI is highly contagious to birds, including commercial and backyard flocks of poultry, the agency said. The virus is also not considered a threat to food safety because infected birds do not enter the good supply, according to the department.
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