Senate Agriculture Holds Hearings On Bird Flu And Its Influence On U.S. Poultry Sector

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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 07: U.S. Agriculture Department Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Deputy Administrator John Clifford (R) and
Agriculture Research Service Southeast Poultry Laboratory Director David Swayne testify before the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee about the impact of the highly pathogenic avian influenza on the U.S. poultry sector July 7, 2015 in Washington, DC. Fifteen states had confirmed cases of three different strains of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in domesticated birds since December of 2014. More than 33 million birds have been euthanized in affected flocks in the nation's worst outbreak.