Latest Bird Flu Outbreaks Will Require Killing Over 1.5 Million Hens and Turkeys

Agricultural officials in Iowa said Tuesday they’ve uncovered at least two more bird flu outbreaks among commercial flocks of birds.

The latest outbreaks will require a total of over 1.5 million hens and turkeys to be killed, according to the Associated Press. One outbreak occurred at an egg farm roughly 60 miles from Des Moines, where a majority of the birds that must be executed will be killed, the outlet reported. The other was identified at a turkey farm some 65 miles north of Iowa’s capital, with at least 28,000 birds there requiring execution, AP continued.

The bodies of the killed birds will likely be put in a compost pit on the farms that housed them, AP reported.