The Change Mariner: Bird Flu Found At Second Delaware Site

February 11, 2004

Bird Flu Found At Second Delaware Site

Officials responded to a new discovery of bird flu Tuesday by ordering a quarantine of 80 farms and the slaughter of 72,000 more chickens. The swift action was aimed at averting more bans on U.S. exports.
The second case of disease was found in a commercial flock of roaster-type chickens in northern Sussex County, at least five miles away from the farm where the first flock tested positive last week.

The chickens at the second farm, operated by Perdue Farms, were killed Tuesday afternoon, said Delaware Secretary of Agriculture Michael Scuse. "This now is a very, very serious matter. We have a multibillion-dollar industry at stake,'' he said.

Scuse said it was unclear how the second farm was infected. "At this time, we cannot explain how the virus appeared so far outside our original containment zone,'' he said.

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