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November 16, 2005
China Vaccinates Birds
By: Rowan Wolf
Yay! FINALLY, someone does something that makes sense about Avian Flu. China is going to vaccinate all of its poultry. Now that is no small task with roughly 5.2 billion birds to be vaccinated. This is the first action to stop a pandemic that has made any sense at all. Stop the virus at the birds. By protecting the poultry from bird flu, it should dramatically reduce the risks of transmission to humans (in its current form), thereby reducing the risks of it muting to a highly communicable human to human form. Thank you China for taking truly positive action.. Logistically, this will be a difficult undertaking, but then so is culling millions of birds each time there is an outbreak.
Posted by Rowan at November 16, 2005 12:16 PM Category: Environment