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Sometime in the last year or so I was reading (here?) about how chicken farms were trying to keep viruses from infecting the birds. They discovered that employees were not following sanitation protocols, were bringing the pathogens in on their shoes, clothing. For some people the rules don't applyDH had family that had commercial houses years ago. They raised broilers. They said they had random deaths often. These deaths were expected as broilers grow so fast they have problems. If they had many deaths at once they were to report to the commercial owner. Then they tested to look for a cause. Some issues caused the entire barn to be culled. Reimbursements were minimal so they lost money and time.
With all the commercial farms and all the technology I don't understand how a pathogen gets in those houses. The birds never see the sun much less free range. Many maintenance chores are automatic. Looks like they could isolate a few remote houses that had an outbreak. Watch and see what happens. Many will die. But not all. Study those birds.
It is obvious the flu is in migratory birds. It has been proven. Like covid, we have to live with it now. We cannot and do not want to kill all the birds in the world.
Also all breeds of waterfowl do not die from this flu. They need to learn why.
I followed a page last year of a private duck farm in Washington state that was affected during the holidays 2022. Some birds died and they tested the rest. They were not immediately culled because of bad weather and the holidays. The owners quarantined the sick and attempted to treat while they waited. Some had started to recover by the time the team arrived to cull. The owners offered to allow them to take the recovered and study them. They culled them all on site!
I've read studies that say birds once affected become carriers. Never seen any study reporting reactivation of the virus from a carrier. I have started recently seeing reports of some showing immunity like the falcons I posted above. Hope to see more of that!
Sorry to hear about the forced cull. I work in a medical university setting. People don't stop to think, they just do as they were trained. Sometimes I just look at people doing stoopid stuff and wonder...how did they survive this far, you know?
