Thousands of birds at a poultry farm in Pennsylvania in a file photo. Maryland officials announced this week that they had detected avian flu in a flock in Caroline County. (Photo by Lance Cheung/U.S. Department of Agriculture)
State agriculture officials announced this week that the highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza, known as bird flu, was detected on a commercial farm in Caroline County, the first case detected in Maryland this year.
The Maryland Department of Agriculture said in a statement Thursday that preliminary results of testing on a broiler chicken farm in the county detected the highly contagious virus among birds on the farm, where the birds are raised for meat production…