Highway shut down after waste truck carrying dead bird flu ducks crashes in northern Indiana

Emergency absorption responded to a hazmat concern connected Friday greeting aft a discarded absorption motortruck carrying ducks that had died from vertebrate flu crashed into a ditch astatine the broadside of a highway, according to officials.

The motortruck rolled into a ditch on U.S. Route 33 successful Churubusco successful Northern Indiana conscionable aft 8 a.m., forcing the road to adjacent successful some directions, the Whitley County Emergency Management Agency said successful a quality alert.

The country was secured with a 100-foot perimeter arsenic a precaution and there’s nary known menace to nationalist wellness astatine this time, the bureau said.

"Waste management, Maple Leaf Farms, and Indiana Board of Animal Health are moving unneurotic to person a specialized squad to travel bash the cleanup," the bureau said.

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File photograph of vertebrate flu informing sign.  (File photo,  Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Smith Township Fire Department, Whitley Sheriff Department, Churubusco Police Department and Whitley County Emergency Management each responded to the incident.

"Avoid the country of 650 East and US 33 northbound of Churubusco owed to an exigency scene," the bureau said Friday greeting connected societal media.

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A duckling getting a vertebrate flu vaccination.  (Gaizka Iroz/AFP via Getty Images)

The dormant ducks had been picked up astatine respective Maple Leaf Farms successful Northern Michigan, and they had each been diseased with vertebrate flu.

The H5N1 Avian Flu outbreak has been ongoing successful the U.S. for the past respective years, and has near hundreds of millions of birds dead.

Ducks astatine a workplace successful New York.  (Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty Images)

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The avian flu is highly contagious among birds and immoderate mammals, but doesn’t transmit easy to humans.

"People seldom get vertebrate flu, but erstwhile they do, it is astir often aft close, unprotected vulnerability (without wearing respiratory oregon oculus protection) to birds oregon different animals infected with avian influenza A viruses," the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says connected its website.