Sales, markets and swaps involving live poultry can resume in Georgia, state agriculture officials announced Monday evening, lifting a ban on the activities that had been in place since a deadly strain of bird flu rocked the industry last month.
Last month, broiler chickens at a commercial poultry facility in Elbert County tested positive for H5N1…The cases were the first in a commercial poultry facility in Georgia since an unprecedented global outbreak began in 2022. While chicken and eggs were still available and safe to purchase from grocery stores, the ban brought an immediate halt to all markets, swaps, sales and exhibitions in Georgia. After weeks of surveillance, the Georgia Department of Agriculture says those activities can now resume.
