avian flu

Penn State Extension poultry team leader Dr. John Boney says the disease poses low risk to human health, and there are measures to ensure safety if you have backyard chickens.

A poultry farm in Lancaster County’s East Donegal Township is ground zero in Pennsylvania for the highly contagious bird flu that has swept across the U.S.

At the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Paul Patterson, a poultry specialist in the Penn State department of Animal Science, stands under a large…