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A Georgia chicken producer is working to stop the spread of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), more commonly known as bird flu, after becoming the third commercial operation in the state to have tested positive this year.

The Gordon County producer noticed signs of illness on Wednesday and reported it to the Georgia Poultry Laboratory Network on Thursday, according to a Georgia Department of Agriculture press release.

The following day, Georgia Department of Agriculture's Emergency Management and State Agricultural Response Teams "deployed to the affected premises to conduct depopulation, disposal, cleaning, and disinfection."

The facility housed about 140,000 broiler chickens.

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