Department of Agriculture confirms cases of bird flu in Nebraska

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Bird flu has now been found on a commercial poultry farm in Nebraska, the 16th state to report cases of the virus since December.

There are 1.7 million chickens on the egg-laying farm in Dixon County, and those that have been infected will be euthanized, the Department of Agriculture said Tuesday. Since December, more than 32 million birds have been affected by the virus.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US
Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.