The Morning Call – A commercial poultry farm in Lehigh County has the state’s first confirmed 2025 case of bird flu in domestic poultry, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture said Monday, noting the case affected a 50,000-bird chicken flock.
Preliminary samples indicate the presence of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, and samples from the state lab have been shipped to a U.S. Department of Agriculture lab for confirmation.
“While there is no risk to the general public, and poultry products and eggs are safe to eat if cooked properly, HPAI is highly infectious and is generally fatal to domestic birds,” the state Department of Agriculture said in a news release.
The news release noted that a “state and federal interagency task force is on the farm carrying out a comprehensive response plan to help keep the virus from spreading further.
The department has quarantined the farm and all commercial poultry facilities, restricting the movement of poultry products within a 10-kilometer radius of the infected flock.”
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The farm was not identified, but the release said it was an egg-laying facility …