Courtesy our news partners at WHIO:

DARKE COUNTY — High Path Avian Influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, has been detected in nearly one million chickens in the Miami Valley. In Darke County, 931,302 commercial chickens were confirmed positive for bird flu by the National Veterinary Services Laboratory on Dec. 27, according to the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA). The exact location of where these chickens were in the county was not initially released. The over 931,000 chickens were depopulated, according to the ODA. As News Center 7 has reported with previous bird flu outbreaks, ODA’s procedure is to quarantine the impacted facility and to “depopulate,” or kill, the birds to prevent the disease from spreading.