Sentence examples for flocks testing from inspiring English sources

The disease turned out to be more widespread than was first thought but, since 2005, the number of flocks testing positive has fallen by about 77%.Yet British farmers, with 33m sheep or 24% of the EU's total flock, don't want to be herded down that route.

The average percentage of broiler flocks testing positive for Campylobacter during P1 was 35.3% (11.4% to 64.%8) and P2 was 40.8 (18% to 77%).

The mean percentage of broiler flocks testing positive for Salmonella during P1 (before withdrawal) was 14.4% (range 3.7%too 33.6%) for antemortem examination and 17% (range 8.1%too 38.8%) for postmortem (Table 2) P2 samples averaged 2.4% (range 0.2% to 5.8%) and 4.9% (range 0.7%too 24.9%), respectively.

The sheep -- 359 in total -- were imported from the same stock in Europe in 1996; four in one of the flocks tested positive for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, the family of diseases that includes mad cow.

Of the 197 turkey flocks tested, 58 (29.4 %) birds were positive for parvovirus infection.

Chickens were positive for parvovirus infection in 10 (22.2 %) of the flocks tested.

The prevalence of astrovirus was 34/77 (44.15%) in the flocks tested.

On these 25 farms, 30 flocks (22 duck and 8 chicken flocks) tested positive for subtype H5 virus RNA.

Seventy-six percent of farmers were willing to be tested, but only 67.9% were willing to have their flocks tested.

At least one seropositive animal was found in 32 of the 33 flocks tested (97.0%; 95% CI: 84.2%, 99.9%).

In 28 (45.9%) of the 61 free-range duck flocks tested, infection with H5N1 influenza virus was detected.