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Dec. 14, 2022Jefferson City, Mo. | By: Jeremy Werner
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Federal officials have confirmed a new case of bird flu in a commercial turkey flock in Missouri. The latest case was found in Osage County.
Nearly all the states in the Midwest have had confirmed cases of the bird flu, but Iowa leads all states. So far this year, nearly 16 million chickens and turkeys have been slaughtered, more than double the next closest state of Nebraska.
This is largely because Iowa is the nation’s largest egg producer and egg farms can include millions of chickens. Bird flu doesn’t represent a significant threat to human health because human cases are extremely rare and none of the infected birds are allowed into the nation’s food supply.
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