PA DEPT OF AGRICULTURE TAKING FURTHER ACTION TO STOP SPREAD OF BIRD FLU

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture is taking further action to stop the spread of bird flu in the commonwealth.  Officials say a task force of state and federal agents is being sent to each poultry farm where an outbreak has been reported.  All of the farms will be quarantined, and product movement is being restricted at any other farms within a ten-kilometer radius.  Bird flu has been detected at farms in five Pennsylvania counties.