America's North Shore Journal

The U.S. State Department Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team participated in a project inoculating and delivering chickens to the Mahmudiyah Poultry Association Feb. 27. Charles Russell, an agricultural advisor for the EPRT traveled to the Poultry Agkardi Hatchery here to assist local Iraqi farmer spray 22,000 chicks—each of them 21-days-old—with a vaccine to protect them from Gumboro disease. Gumboro disease (also known as infectious bursal disease) destroys a chicken’s immune system, leaving it susceptible to infections much … Read entire article »