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24,000 Texas Birds Destroyed Amid Flu

IN BRIEF / AGRICULTURE

May 29, 2004|From Associated Press

About 24,000 chickens were destroyed after avian flu was found on a farm in northeast Texas that supplies chickens to the poultry giant Pilgrim's Pride Corp., state officials said.

Routine blood tests at the farm discovered the infection, but no symptoms were found in chickens.

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