The European Union’s 27 member states agreed last year to implement a bird flu vaccine strategy. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS – Governments should consider vaccinating birds against bird flu to avoid the virus – which has already killed hundreds of millions of birds and infected mammals worldwide – turning into a new pandemic, the head of the World Animal Health Organisation said.
“Since almost every country that does international trade has now been infected, maybe it’s time to discuss vaccination, in addition to systematic culling, which remains the main tool ,” she said. The European Union’s 27 member states agreed last year to implement a bird flu vaccine strategy. France is set to be the first one, starting with ducks in the autumn.
However, it still considers biosecurity measures to be the most effective tool for mitigating the virus in commercial flocks, it said in e-mailed answers.
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