H5N1 News: Say Goodbye to Cheap Chicken
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Deborah Mackensie writes in New Scientist:
If H5N1 bird flu takes hold, an entire livestock industry could face ruin - and it won't just be farmers who pay the price.
Disaster is looming for Europe's poultry. The European Union has just had its first outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in poultry, on a turkey farm in eastern France. It is unlikely to be the last. The virus has now been found in wild birds across Europe, and as spring migrants arrive from Africa virologists predict it could become endemic in European wild birds within two months.
Though effective vaccines exist to protect domestic birds from H5N1, the EU is refusing to allow their general use. Officials say that vaccination just masks the spread of the virus, making it diffcult to monitor and contain. If this policy continues, it will mean that any bird flu outbreak within the EU will have to be handled by culling infected animals and those nearby.
posted by Fergie @ 3/04/2006 01:16:00 PM
1 Comments:
All over in the world the people talk so much about bird flu,
but nobody remembers which is the real causes
that have generated this terrifying virus.
Are you sure about
what is there is in your plate?
I propose to you
two pills, one red, one blue,
to you the choice.
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