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Big Chicken Gets the Flu
Photo by James Sappington
As we stepped through the side door of a long chicken house on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, thousands of birds tried to scatter. Scattering, though, was not an option for any one of these 30,000 chickens packed into a 500-by 50-long house.

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Big Chicken Gets the Flu
by Ryan Grim
One more ill strikes Maryland’s biggest agricultural industry. Each year, six hundred million birds live and die on the Delmarva peninsula — but not without leaving behind an environmental legacy. Now, they bring another worry.

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