Last week, the Arizona Department of Agriculture announced that bird flu had been discovered at a commercial farm in Maricopa County. Now, a second facility in the county has now been affected.
The Department of Agriculture says symptoms at the second commercial poultry farm started showing last week and samples were sent off for diagnosis.
Neither of the farms has been identified in what state officials are calling an “animal disease emergency.”
The affected poultry eggs did not get into the food supply, official said, and there have been no signs of illness in humans either.
The Department of Agriculture says the farms have been placed under quarantine and efforts are underway to perform what they call virus elimination.
According to the CDC, the health risk to the general public is low.
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