JMU may be used to an STD outbreak every now and then in Eagle hall, but we may now find ourselves a little too close and cuddly with a disease of another kind:

The Avian Flu (duhn duhn duhhhn!).

Rockingham County boasts the title of poultry capital of the US (yeah, that’s the delicious after-rain smell), but when avian flu was detected in 54,000 turkeys near Mount Jackson (just up 81), the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services shut down all poultry-related fairs, sales, and litter-spreading (um, ew!).

So, wow, sorry ‘bout that guys - no more after-class chicken events for a while. Wouldn’t want you to catch the dread disease at the local, um, ho’-down, now would we?

Even MORE (too much!) information: http://dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=11117&CHID=1