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MANHATTAN — Kansas Department of Agriculture animal health experts are monitoring a 12-mile zone around two central Kansas facilities after the agency identified the presence of the highly pathogenic avian influenza.
The state agency announced Tuesday that members of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service found cases of the avian flu, or HPAI, in two egg-laying facilities, one in McPherson County and one in Rice County. The total number of case in Kansas this fall is now up to five, with 21 cases in the state since environmental officials noted the start of the outbreak last year.
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