As three more Indiana bird farms confirm outbreaks of bird flu, Sen. Todd Young and 15 other senators have written a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins asking her to accelerate the USDA’s response to the disease.
In the letter, Young and his colleagues ask for an aggressive vaccination strategy, new ways to combat the spread of disease, and movement controls for all at-risk animals.
On Thursday, the Indiana State Board of Animal Health confirmed three more flocks have been infected with bird flu.
LaGrange and Jasper Counties both confirmed their first case of bird flu, one at a breeder duck farm with 3,846 birds and the other at a small hobby flock of just 90 birds. In Jay County, a commercial turkey flock of nearly 19,000 birds has also been quarantined.
Nearly seven million commercial birds have been infected in Indiana since January.
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