Midwest Pheasant Producers Are Nervous As Bird Flu Spreads

By KEVIN BURBACH, Waco Tribune-Herald
Fri, 04/24/2015 - 1:58pm

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Game bird producers in the Midwest are ramping up disease prevention measures in an effort to shield their multi-billion-dollar industry from the highly contagious avian influ

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