Bird Flu is Racing Through Farms, but Northwest States Are Rarely Testing Workers

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By Rachel Spacek, InvestigateWest

On a recent Monday morning, workers began their week on a large poultry farm in Franklin County, Washington, home to over 800,000 chickens.

By the end of the day, avian flu had been discovered among some of those chickens. By the end of the week, four workers came down with the illness,…

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