Every day now, two or three new premises have been testing positive for bird flu. If they do, their flocks are culled
At the APHA lab in Weybridge, Surrey, they test every sample of suspected bird flu coming from poultry farms and wild birds. They've seen a 600% increase in cases in the last three months.
In the medium term, the industry is looking to the vaccination of birds. But it's complicated. Right now, there aren't adequate supplies of vaccine. And there's little real-world experience of using them.What's more,"vaccinating comes at a cost," says Brown."You actually then have to do quite intensive surveillance in your population as you vaccinate.
"I don't think that it's tenable to continue culling millions of birds every year just for economic reasons," says Prof Thjis Kuiken, a veterinary pathologist at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, Netherlands."I think it's ethically not acceptable to do so."Although wild birds now represent the reservoir for new infections of HPAI, its origins and its evolution occurred in farmed poultry, he says.
"We've let bird flu slip through our fingers," says Prof Kuiken."Why are we doing things in such a stupid way? If you look at the impacts of the poultry industry and the other livestock industry on the environment, on human health, on animal health, what are the benefits of that?"
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