The UK government is actively considering vaccinating the country’s poultry flock against bird flu in a bid to curb the worst-ever global outbreak of the virus and prevent it turning into a new pandemic in humans 🔴 janemerrick23 reports
Professor Ian Brown, director of scientific services at the Animal and Plant Health Authority in Surrey
“My personal concern is that there are quite a lot of really important biodiverse populations of birds [in South America], you wouldn’t really want to consider the consequences of this virus getting right into the tip of South America and then potentially into the southern oceans of Antarctica. His team’s tests have established that the virus can survive in the environment for as many as six weeks at an ambient winter temperature of 4C, meaning it is hanging around long after a bird has shed it.
“I have not personally seen a clear descriptive report that all of these seals were truly dying of H5N1, and that there is enough data to know it was going from one seal to another.” Prof Brown said there was, as yet, no scientific evidence of transmission between wild mammals but his team have been ramping up surveillance and monitoring: “This was not a dimension people foresaw.”
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