Highly contagious virus has particularly ravaged California’s Sonoma county, know as the ‘Egg Basket of the World’
Last month, Mike Weber got the news every poultry farmer fears: his chickens tested positive for avian flu.
Following government rules, Weber’s company, Sunrise Farms, had to slaughter its entire flock of egg-laying hens – 550,000 birds – to prevent the disease from infecting other farms in Sonoma county north of San Francisco.