GOVERNOR SHAPIRO SAYS ADMINISTRATION IN “CRISIS MODE” DUE TO AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK

Governor Josh Shapiro says his administration is in “crisis mode” as an avian flu outbreak continues to spread in the Commonwealth.  More than seven-point-six-million-birds have died across Pennsylvania following exposure, many of them in Lancaster County.  Shapiro made the statement during a roundtable in Lancaster yesterday with farmers and agricultural leaders in the area.  He said they plan to distribute close to 60-million-dollars through the state’s Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Recovery Fund, which was created to help poultry producers recover from devastating losses due to bird flu.