US considers vaccinating chickens to protect from devastating bird flu outbreak that has caused 22 million poultry deaths in America
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] These things happen, from time to time. Nobody ever bothered with a vaccine before, they just culled the infected flocks. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering rolling out a bird flu vaccine for poultry in the country
- A current outbreak of the avian flue has caused the death of around 22 million birds
- The outbreak has caused turmoil in the poultry industry over the past few months
- Humans are relatively safe from the outbreak, with bird-to-human transmission rare and human-to-human transmission likely not possible
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-04-05 |