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Hundreds Of Thousands Of Chickens Killed
Pocomoke City (UPI) Mar 09, 2004 Maryland agriculture officials were killing more than 300,000 chickens Sunday and setting wider quarantine boundaries after confirming a pocket of avian flu. The strain of bird-killing virus detected within one of the world's premier poultry raising regions, the Delmarva Peninsula, does not sicken humans yet threatens the main industry of the region, delawareonline.com reported. Officials are including at least 71 farms within the latest quarantine area and killing 328,000 chickens at its center, containing 12 chicken houses. The disease is the same one discovered in nearby Delaware nearly a month ago. That area still hopes to complete a full month without a new outbreak, meeting a basic health requirement on the road to being declared disease free. In Maryland the quarantine area has been extended to a six-mile radius on both sidesOf U.S. 50 that reaches the Virginia border. Every one of the nearly 2,000 chicken farms in Delmarva are being tested for the virus. The outbreak comes a few weeks before planting of corn and soybeans begins and should it not be contained, farmers will not be able to use the customary chicken litter as fertilizer, increasing fertilizer costs. All rights reserved. Copyright 2004 by United Press International. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by United Press International. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of by United Press International. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Dirt, rocks and all the stuff we stand on firmly
Magnetic Reconnection Region Larger Than 2.5 Million Km Found In The Solar Wind
Paris (ESA) Jan 12, 2006Using the ESA Cluster spacecraft and the NASA Wind and ACE satellites, a team of American and European scientists have discovered the largest jets of particles created between the Earth and the Sun by magnetic reconnection. This result makes the cover of this week's issue of Nature. |
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