11.03.2015

A case of H5N2 avian influenza has been identified in a turkey farm (40,000) in Boone County, northwestern Arkansas. The farm, along with the Asbury farm in Missouri, is a contract farm that supplies to Butterball LLC, the largest turkey producer in the U.S. 
Arkansas is the nation's third-leading turkey-producing state, after Minnesota and North Carolina, and is home to Tyson Foods, the nation's biggest chicken company.
The infection, threatens to widen trading restrictions from countries such as Taiwan, Singapore and Nicaragua that have already limited U.S. poultry exports due to avian flu outbreaks in states ranging from Minnesota and Missouri to California. The three states are all along a migratory bird route.
Shares of U.S. meat producers were sharply lower after the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed that it has detected H5N2 avian flu in a turkey flock in Arkansas.