ATLANTA — Georgia was declared free Friday of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, following confirmed cases earlier in the year in two different counties.
Tyler Harper, the Georgia agriculture commissioner, credited the “tireless efforts of our Georgia Department of Agriculture staff and partners in this response” in preventing any wider spread of HPAI among flocks.
Two cases had been detected in Walker County and one was detected in Hart County this year, according to state officials…