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Region's Poultry Farms on High Alert for Virus

There were 561 million chickens -- broilers, roasters and Cornish hens -- raised last year on the Delmarva Peninsula, or, looked at another way, 468 chickens for every person on the Eastern Shore. Some of the biggest names in chicken -- Perdue Farms, Tyson Foods -- operate here alongside 5,500...
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By Joshua Partlow

 
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