Avian influenza found in South Carolina

[Sally PB]

From the second link:
A conditional license is used to meet an emergency condition, limited market, local situation or other special circumstance and is issued for a finite period of time. Conditional licenses may be renewed at the discretion of the CVB.

 

[RoyalChick]

I think right now only for commercial interests and possibly only specific situations. I think they are still working it out because it may cause issues with some foreign trade.

I read one possible use would be in flocks surrounding an outbreak. This would help stamp it out without killing so many healthy birds.

If I understand it correctly it is the same vaccine they used in California Condors. If that is true, this vaccine has been studied an used successfully in real world situations.

I've always thought if commercial interests had a good vaccine they would care less about what is in our back yards.

Yes. That is what I figured too. Zoetis did say they were updating the virus because since the condors the predominant strain has changed.

 

[RoyalChick]

From the second link:
A conditional license is used to meet an emergency condition, limited market, local situation or other special circumstance and is issued for a finite period of time. Conditional licenses may be renewed at the discretion of the CVB.

Yes. The condors were a clear example of that, but couldn’t you say the whole situation is an emergency?
I believe that is what was done initially for the Covid vaccine.

 

[Folly's place]

Influenza types like to mutate, it's always been an issue, and it's royal pain for us and for the vaccine manufacturers.
I'll be delighted to vaccinate my chickens when it's available, most likely first in the face of a local outbreak, like now here, with dead wild birds ten miles in each direction from our flock!
And I think that commercial flock owners will feel that way too.
Crossing fingers that it works out for all of us!
Mary

 

[Molpet]

I'll be delighted to vaccinate my chickens when it's available,

Funding cut for AI vaccine
https://www.reuters.com/business/he...2l40TyyZgp2hItmLeo_aem_NhUYSdPRLU6Q3KGIaHLbBQ

 

[Folly's place]

I saw that too.One of many wonderful things happening in public health now...
Mary

 

[Folly's place]

The Moderna vaccine was meant for people, not poultry. Apparently we won't ever need it...
Mary