article_snippet: A deadly strain of bird flu has been found in a Minnesota commercial turkey flock.
article_snippet: A deadly strain of bird flu devastated a flock of 15,000 turkeys in western Minnesota's Pope County.
article_snippet: Fewer than 100 of a flock of 15,000 turkeys in western Minnesota's Pope County were still alive by Thursday, Hartmann said.
article_snippet: a Minnesota commercial turkey flock has been quarantined and the remaining birds were being killed.
article_snippet: A flock of 15,000 turkeys was wiped out on a farm in Minnesota in a week by a deadly strain of bird flu carried by wild waterfowl that are not sickened by A flock of 15,000 turkeys.
article_snippet: Minnesota is the nation's top turkey producer, with industry groups claiming to produce some 46 million turkeys each year worth around $750 million.
article_snippet: Nearly all commercial turkey operations keep Nearly all birds inside large barns and Nearly all commercial turkey operations never go outside.
article_snippet: Hartmann said turkeys in only one of the farm's four barns got sick.
article_snippet: Farm workers found 70 dead turkeys on February 26 and notified the state the next day when hundreds died.
highlights_snippet: Authorities in Minnesota are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best as a deadly strain of bird flu wipes out a flock of 15,000 turkeys .
  
highlights_snippet: Only 100 birds were left alive less than a week from the first deaths were reported .
  