CALHOUN COUNTY, Iowa (KTIV) - A case of bird flu was detected in Northwest Iowa.

According to a press release by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, a case of bird flu was reported on Thursday, Oct. 2, in a commercial turkey flock in Calhoun County.

This comes after a case of bird flu was detected in South Dakota by the United States Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A.) confirmed a week earlier.

The exact number of birds impacted is not yet posted to the U.S.D.A.’s bird flu tracking site.

The Iowa Department of Agriculture says this is the state’s eighth case of bird flu in 2025.

Of the seven cases this spring, four of them were located in Northwest Iowa. This impacts 698,000 chickens and turkeys.

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