H5N1 Kills 6.5M Chickens
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On the Front Lines Against Bird Flu, Egg Farmers Say They're Losing the Battle - KFF Health News
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H5N1 virus can wipe out entire flocks within days of the first infection.
The risk to human health is only growing, experts say.
The virus is so entrenched in the global environment, spilling into mammals such as dairy cows.
Egg producers and the American Egg Board , an industry group, beg for a new prevention strategy.
The challenges of biosecurity are completely different for backyard coops than massive commercial barns.
There’s a growing push to vaccinate certain poultry against avian influenza , which countries like China , Egypt , and France are already doing.
Lateral spread, when the virus is transmitted from farm to farm, has dropped dramatically.
No current HPAI vaccine is a perfect match for the current strain, the USDA says.
If the virus evolves to be able to transmit efficiently from human to human, that would be a game changer for everybody, he says.
The USDA announced it would “pursue a stockpile that matches current outbreak strains” in poultry.