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State of emergency declared in Minnesota over bird flu
2015-04-24 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
The contagious strain of avian flu has forced Minnesota to declare a state of emergency on Thursday, following in the footsteps of Wisconsin.
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Testosterone key to new bird bang theory
2015-04-22 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] New research from a Wake Forest University biologist who studies animal behavior suggests that evolution is hard at work when it comes to the acrobatic courtship dances of a tropical bird species. Assistant professor of biology Matthew Fuxjager studies the physiological basis of bird behavior, with a particular emphasis on how hormones control complex social behavior. For his latest study, published April 13 in the journal Functional Ecology, he investigated ho…
Bird flu hits 5.3 million Iowa chickens; Hormel says turkey production down
2015-04-22 00:03:23| Food - Topix.net
Chickens stand in their cages at a farm near Stuart, Iowa, in this November 2009n file photo. Discovery of the bird flu on an Iowa turkey farm has raised serious concerns that the bird killer could find its way into chicken barns in the nation's top egg-producing state and rapidly decimate the flocks that provide the U.S. with its breakfast staple.
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Hormel says bird flu outbreak will hurt turkey sales
2015-04-21 00:24:11| Food - Topix.net
Farmers have been forced to kill more than 2.4 million turkeys since March. Most of the birds were in Minnesota, where Hormel is based.
US finds first case of lethal bird flu in commercial chicken flock
2015-04-14 17:10:42| Food - Topix.net
A flock of 200,000 hens in Wisconsin is the first commercial U.S. chicken operation to become infected with a lethal strain of bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, widening the impact of a virus that has killed hundreds of thousands of turkeys this year. The chickens were at an egg-laying facility in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, between Madison and Milwaukee, and represented the state's first case of the H5N2 flu, according to the Agriculture Department.
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