*Ivory Coast has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu on a poultry farm in the east the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Thursday. SRN NEWS/REUTERS reports the virus, which has ravaged flocks around the world including northeast Georgia in recent years, killed 95,000 poultry birds in the district of Koun-Fao near the border with Ghana, the Paris-based agency said, citing a report from the Ivorian authorities. It’s been more than a year since Georgia’s last known case of the virus, according to the 97.5 Glory FM news archives. EARLIER STORY. POSTED MARCH 2025: Harper: Ga. poultry again free of bird flu
*The Buzzard Mountain fire in White County is now 100 percent contained, according to the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), but the area will be monitored for the next few days and even weeks. USFS personnel as well as local and state agencies had been fighting the fire since Sunday. It burned about 26 acres.
*REMINDER: The Hall County Republican Party will be hosting a political forum Saturday at the Gainesville Civic Center for state and local candidates. EARLIER STORY: New info on Sat.’s Hall GOP candidate forum