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Last updated on Thursday, June 4, 2015
(UNDATED) - A week after imposing a travel ban on poultry, Indiana’s Board of Animal Health is turning its attention to what comes next.
The board will take public comment online for the rest of the month on ways to again allow poultry shows in Indiana while minimizing the risk of spreading bird flu.
The flu outbreak has killed an estimated 40-million birds nationwide, and prompted 11 states, including Indiana, to ban poultry shows.
Board spokeswoman Denise Derrer says the earliest a new rule could be in place is January. That means the State Fair and other poultry exhibitions for the rest of the year will remain canceled.
Derrer says experts expect it'll be two or three years before the flu outbreak runs its course. She says there's little risk that humans could catch the disease.
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