Testing for Bird Flu in Dubois County should end later this month

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A bird flu outbreak had a devastating impact on ten farms in Dubois County last month, but it looks like most restrictions on poultry in that region will be lifted in two weeks if no additional cases are found.

State Board of Animal Health spokeswoman Denise Derrer says the last positive bird flu case was January 16 in Dubois County, Indiana’s top turkey-producing county. If no additional cases are found, testing and surveillance of commercial poultry farms will end February 22 within a 12.4-mile radius around the first farm where the virus was detected.

More than 400,000 turkeys and chickens were euthanized at those farms to help contain the outbreak.