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A second commercial broiler poultry farm west of Springville in Tulare County was confirmed to have an outbreak of bird flu on Oct. 24.
This outbreak affects an estimated 6,000 birds. On Oct. 16, a neighboring poultry farm with a flock of 786,600 birds, was also confirmed to have the disease.
H5N1 avian influenza, better known as bird flu, has been confirmed in 145 dairies in California in the past 30 days, according to the USDA Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on Oct. 29. That number does not include the dairies affected by the disease in the first four weeks of the outbreak.
As a comparison, the rest of the U.S. has a total of two confirmed bird flu cases in livestock herds, both in Idaho.
There are now 16 human cases of bird flu in California, according to the Oct. 28 update from the California Department of Public Health.
The Tulare County Health & Human Services Agency reported that 11 of those cases were in Tulare County. Cases have also been reported in Kings and Kern counties.
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