Over 40 million of them have been affected by this and have been destroyed. That's 13.3% of the total egg laying population. There are 238 million turkeys raised every year. 8 million have had to be euthanized because of this outbreak. That's estimated to be about an $8 billion impact on, onto in our economy. And fortunately we have not seen a new outbreak since about mid June. (01:14–01:22)
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Asserts that 8 million turkeys have been euthanized due to the avian influenza outbreak.
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