A34—Lancaster Famine, Saturday, March 3,1984 BY KIMBERLY HERR LANCASTER The Avian Influenza Task Force announced this week that Franklin County has been released from the general quarantine restricting the movement of live birds and hat ching eggs. Dr. John Jefferies, USDA director of the task force, and Dr. Earl Neufer, state codirector, announced Wednesday that the general quarantine was removed in a 200 square mile area of Franklin County because an in tense surveillance of the area had yielded no signs of avian influenza infection. This marks the first time that the quarantine zone has been reduced in Pennyslvania since it was in stituted on Nov. 4 Tim Allwein, Pa. Poultry Federation spokesman, reported Friday that 281 flocks have been declared to have the influenza and all of those flocks have been depopulated, for a total of 11,396,118 birds. 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