The second case of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed in Nebraska, this time on a commercial broiler flock in Butler County.
Steve Wellman is Nebraska’s Director of Agriculture. “There are about 570,000 broilers on that location,” he says. “USDA and the Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) are working with the owners and the producers there to depopulate the site and to control the spread of the disease.”
The facility has been placed under quarantine and NDA has established a 6.2-mile control zone around the infected premises.
