July 11th, 2023 by WCBC Radio
Federal funding has been made available to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to control the spread of wildlife diseases. The funding comes from the US Fish and Wildlife Zoonotic Disease Initiative and will initially focus on the highly contagious avian flu that spread through poultry farms last year, killing hundreds of thousands of chickens on local farms. The DNR will be able increase surveillance of animals considered to be highly susceptible to emerging diseases in the Chesapeake Bay region and address outbreaks before they become pandemic.
