Highly Lethal Bird Flu Spreads to Iowa Backyard Poultry Flock

Highly Lethal Bird Flu Spreads to Iowa Backyard Poultry Flock
Chickens gather around a feeder at a farm in a file photo. Scott Olson/Getty Images
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CHICAGO—Iowa reported a highly lethal form of bird flu in a backyard poultry flock on Wednesday, expanding a U.S. outbreak of the disease to the top egg-producing state.

The flock in Pottawattamie County, which was not being raised for commercial production, will be culled to prevent the spread of the disease, Iowa said.