27-01-2025
Farmers, neighbors raise concerns of smell amid bird flu outbreak
A High Path Avian Influenza outbreak, otherwise known as bird flu, has resulted in the death of millions of commercial chickens and turkeys in Darke and Mercer counties.
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News Center 7′s Malik Patterson talks to farmers and neighbors about their new concerns LIVE on News Center 7 at 6:00.
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Over 3.7 million commercial chickens and more than 86,000 commercial turkeys in these counties were confirmed positive for bird flu on Jan. 23 and Jan. 24, according to a previous News Center 7 report.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture's procedure is to quarantine the impacted facilities and to depopulate, or kill, the birds to prevent the disease from spreading.
Some say the depopulated birds are making the area smell bad.
'I just hate hearing anything drastic like that happen to anybody,' Greenville resident Barb Bateman said.
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