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Iowa reports third case of avian flu

Iowa is reporting its third case of avian flu.

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship has confirmed the outbreak at a 34-thousand bird turkey farm in Sac County in west-central Iowa. The farm has been quarantined and the turkeys will be euthanized to prevent the spread of the disease.

Officials say the farm is within a six-mile monitoring zone of the first Iowa turkey farm to be hit with the H5N2 virus. Sac County is the adjacent county south of Buena Vista County, where a farm with 27-thousand turkeys was confirmed to have the virus on April 13th.

An egg-laying facility with 3.8 million chickens in Osceola County was also struck with the disease.