Greg Herbruck killed 6.5 million euros to die and fast.
But the CEO Herbruck’s bird cattle It was not sure how the family’s egg producers (one of the largest in the US, businesses three generations), would pass economically or emotionally. A staffer broke up in the tears in Herbruck office.
“Many dead chicken to treat our team’s head toll, I mean, you can’t imagine,” Herbruck said. “I didn’t sleep. Our team didn’t sleep.”
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Thousands of thousands of birds were killing thousands of poultry every day while the stress were killing sick birds, while millions were euthanasia, everyone kept awake.
In April 2024, his first positive chickens were H5N1 viruses, Herbruck tested and made it true in the US farming department Game, “Stamping output” strategy He helped the 2014-15 year old bird flu brush, which was the largest in the US so far.
Within 24 and 48 hours of the virus detection, the federal health officials of State and Animals work with farms to reduce the risk of transmission of infected flocks. That’s the care and test of months of disinfection and months, the virus is not yet situ.
Since then, egg farms had to invest millions of dollars in biosess. For example, employees shower and shower before starting work and before their turns end, to prevent viruses. But their efforts are not enough to have an occurrence that began three years ago.
This time, the risk of human health is growing, experts say. 67 of the United States are sixty-six sixty-six In MarchNation included The death of the first manreported in the last month.
“It’s been very high in the last six months,” Nahid Bhadelia, Director of the Doctor of Infectious Diseases and Boston University Center.
Controlling this virus is a greater challenge because it is so rooted in the global environment, spilled in mammals such as dairy products, and roughly affects 150 million birds In the US commercial and patio herds
Because H5n1 virus are so suspicious, they can eliminate whole flocks in the days of first infection, the producers of eggs have been in the previous lines of bird. But this moment is different. Egg producers and an Egg American Committee, the Industrial Group, are requesting a new prevention strategy.
Many experts in infectious diseases come to the constant health health health of the current health protocols due to the health fluence of the bird flu filter.
“The only one we are fighting today is the only one,” he said David SkayneFormer director of the Southeast Research Laboratory Laboratory Research Laboratory Research Service of the USA.
“It’s not sure that the Pandemic of H5N1,” Swayne said, “but it’s saying more humans infections, it is spreading in multiple mammal species.”
For Herbruck, it feels like a war. He fell for ten months from Herbruck’s bird ranch, rebuilding his flocks and regenerates most of the 400 employees established.
However, his members in the industry live in fear, other farms go twice in recent years three times.
“I call a terrorist virus,” he said. “And we are in battle and we are losing it at the moment.”
When Biosecurity does not work … or does not occur
So far, one of 23 people who hired disease from commercial birds did not have serious cases, but the risks are still very real. The first man’s death was a patient in Louisiana, with both wild birds and patio had a relationship with birds. The person were over 65 and were under the medical conditions.
And both the patio for farm lovers and the official message for mega-farms has been the same as the best weapon against the disease of the disease.
But there are many opinions among the flocks of the yard, how serious the bird flu, he said Katie OckotExtension of Michigan State University specializing in biosecurity communications.
Skeptics “We’re getting out of a molehill,” Ockert said, or “the media get out of proportion.” This means that there are two types of patina poultry fans, Ockert said: those who make great biosafety and those who do not try.
“I see both of them,” he said. “I don’t feel any land for people.”
The challenges of biosons are very different than mass trading barns.
Rosemary Reams, an 82-year retired educator, Growing in Michigan, Michigan, agriculture and has helped the local 4 birds program, teaching children how to lift birds. Now, with the bird’s flu brush, “I don’t get people out of my barn,” he said.
Reams also changed real birds with those with fake Children use the judges to use the last 4 h after the judges of the competition, he said.
“We made changes to the fair last year, which made me many questions. And I said, ‘No, I have to think about the safety of the children.’ “
Performance reported the death of the Louisiana Patio’s owner’s death. He asked whether it should continue to be a flock of 20 and 30 chicken and a pair of turkeys.
“But I love them. At my age, I have to do it. I have to be away,” he said again. “That’s what life is about.” He said his best to protect himself and his 4-H children from bird flu.
The “best biosise of the world” is also not enough to save large trade farms from infection, he said Emily Metz, President and CEO American egg board.
Egg industry learned how to emphasize this virus after the 2014-15 brush. Then, between people, trucks, trucks, “We said,” Metz said. The egg producers entered the lock, he developed intensive measures of biosafety to try to block wild birds or other farms.
Metz said the measures are currently taking into egg producers.
“Hundreds of dollars have been invested in improvement, all of the truck cleaners – all the trucks from FedEx Man to be cleaned to the feed truck. To prevent waterbirds from landing.”
The side spread, when the virus is transported to the farmhouse, has dropped outrage, from 70% of the last explosions to April 2023. According to USD.
And yet, Metz said: “All the measures we have done follows this virus.”
Fight against birds vaccine
Perhaps the most controversial discussion about bird industry is to insert flocks right now.
The death of the animals is growing and increasing risk of human beings, growing some anti-bird bird birds China, Stateand France They’re already.
In 2023, World Organization for Animal Health He demanded the nation to study vaccination “as part of a wider prevention and control strategy of the disease”.
Swayne, the veterinarian of the Avian Flu, who said most colleagues in the world of animal and public health as a positive tool for controlling this Panic Panic “, but also the chances of human infection and chances of obtaining virus mutations to be more adapted.
Vaccination could be placed by the exporter of birds (his birds genetically less than H5n1, in danger of losing thousands of dollars in international commercial offers. This is due to concerns that reduce the severity of birds, hide and cross the virus limits, according to John CliffordFormer USA veterinary. Clifford is currently a consultant for the US Birds and Egg Export Board.
“If we have a vaccine, we lose $ 6 billion in exports,” Clifford said. “Turn us off, this product returns to the US market. Our economists looked like this and said that we lost $ 18 million in the house.”
Clifford added “200,000 works of more than 200,000 farms”.
These trading rules changed to allow vaccination to leave meat and eggs from birds, remaining logistical barriers.
“The vaccination could be on the horizon, but it won’t be tomorrow or the next day, next year or whatever,” Clifford said.
Considering the only obstacle: No current HPA vaccine is the perfect match for the current tension, according to USD. But if the virus should be able to effectively transmit man from man, he said: “It would be the variable of all, probably what would force vaccine.”
Last month, USDA announced In a bird, it would be placed in the warehouse that matches the outdoor brown tensions.
“Vaccine expanding for birds will be difficult to have internship and trade implications, in addition to its effectiveness, the USDA continued to launch the bird vaccines,” the agency said.
At this point, Metz argued that the industry cannot try not to vaccinate, as it has helped to eliminate bird diseases before.
“We’re disappointed, and we need all possible tools,” he said. “And right now, we are fighting with this virus, if not two, arms tied behind our back. And the vaccine can be a huge hammer in our toolbox.”
But unless the federal government is made, this tool will not be used.
Aside from the industry concerns, infectious diseases are urgent to reduce the risk of infectious Bhadelia doctors to be infected in the first place. And that means “opportunities to infect in animals around humans, which contain cows and chickens. That’s why I think it seems a big vaccination plan.”
If we continue to learn all the time we continue to play earlier, it would be a smaller problem, “he said.
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