Bird Flu In Cecil County Confirmed: US Department of Agriculture

Havre de Grace MD

05 March, 2022

11:20 AM

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CECIL COUNTY, MD — A property in Cecil County has been quarantined after federal officials found a highly pathogenic avian influenza in a flock of commercial layer chickens there. The tests came from an unnamed facility where birds on the property will be "depopulated to prevent the spread of the disease," the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Saturday. "Birds from the flock will not enter the food system." It is not an immediate public health concern, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a statement. Read more from the USDA here. This is a developing story and will be updated.