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Bird flu outbreak confirmed on second Golden Plains Shire free-range egg farm, prompting warning for producers – ABC News
A second free-range egg farm in the Golden Plains Shire, west of Melbourne, has tested positive to avian influenza, also known as bird flu, with both properties now subject to bird culls and strict quarantine measures.
A second egg farm near Melbourne has tested positive to avian influenza, also known as bird flu, prompting the state’s agriculture department to order all commercial free-range egg farms in the area to house their flocks indoors for 30 days.
It comes one week after the bird flu outbreak was first identified at another free-range egg farm in Lethbridge.
That farm was placed under quarantine, had birds destroyed, and had a restricted buffer zone established around it.
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