The US May Start Vaccinating Chickens Against Bird Flu

In the United States, poultry vaccine will probably focus on the egg -laying chicken, opposite the broiler chicken, which is raised for meat. During the current outbreak, more than 77 percent of the infected domestic poultry were chickens to lay commercial eggs. In a USDA press release, Rollins said the company was considering a “target and thoughtful technique” for vaccination.

However, broiler chicken industry has expressed concern that even the target for vaccinating chicken will hit the United States, the second largest exporter of poultry meat. Ashley Peterson, senior vice president of the National Chicken Council, says other countries only vaccinates chickens in the United States, and can also ban all poultry products in the United States. “When you move to a vaccine, you basically say the virus is native and thus we’re going to deal with it,” he says. “We would like not tolerate the virus. We will prefer to completely eliminate it. “

The organization supports the current principle of infected jerks of the USDA, as well as enhances biocuity in the farms – such as separating newly acquired animals, wearing protective clothing on ducks, disinfecting the footwear before entering the animal area and cleaning the farm equipment.

However, Carol Cardona, a professor at the Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, said that the biocaurity bird flu alone is less likely to be eliminated. “Farmers are so tired of hearing about biosecurity because they are doing everything they can already do,” he says. “Bioscurity is very hard to properly notice without more information about how these birds are infected” “

The virus can be carried out and out of the burn on the shoes, clothes and tools that go inside and out of the duck -murgie burns. Rats, rats and other small mammals can also carry the virus.

As the disease is so wide now, Cardona says it will adopt multiple strategies to reduce the outbreak. “We are fighting this fight with one hand behind us and I think there are other tools,” she says. “We need to create a new method to keep it and a portion of it is about to engage in that vaccine.”

Even if the vaccine does not always prevent infection, Laurenzoni says it will help reduce the amount of virus propagated in the environment, which will reduce the spread of the disease to the farm.

And trade interruptions may be short. Rolins said that the USDA will work with trading partners to limit the impact to export trade market from potential vaccination. Laurenzoni says other markets will have pressure to keep international exchange of international poultry effective. “With these commercial agreements they are in the best interest for everyone to move as fast as possible,” he said.