Great Lakes farms have become a hot spot for bird flu, killing millions of birds and raising fears of a human pandemic.
Vaccinating chickens!?
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That’s all we need is a bunch of autistic chickens … I’m joking. I trust vaccines.
I get the strangest looks from the pharmacists when I ask for extra Thimerosal.
I don’t trust autistic chickens.
Instead, we are having RFK Jr let it rip and essentially engineer a situation where bird flu will mutate and jump to humans. Great shit.
They just destroyed the cdc too so itll be extra great
Egg producers may want a vaccine that can be administered in food or water so they don’t have to give shots to millions of birds.
Hell, I don’t want to give my 9 chickens shots. Put it in treats, plz
Imagine how much work it would be to vaccinate 1,000,000+ chickens in those big factory farms…
Probably administered through feed or water. But would be funny to see someone wearing a bandoleer of needles and running in Terminator style.
Maybe, just maybe we could stop eating so many fucking chickens and eggs?
Yes, I know that wild birds carry the virus too. But this article is specifically about vaccination on farms.
I’ve heard conflicting information.
- That a vaccine would be lifesaving and egg-saving, and it would be a great thing.
- With a vaccine, exporting chickens/eggs to other countries will be impossible because they won’t want to import eggs/meat potentially carrying bird flu (which wouldn’t be known because the chickens wouldn’t show symptoms). So, if food-cautious countries don’t want vaccinated products because of their potential to harbor bird flu, do I want those products? Would this increase the chance for the flu to jump between species?
I am not knowledgeable enough to know which is the better way forward. Can anyone speak to this?
The benefit here would be to eradicate the virus, so that in about 6 months or so there can be confidence that there’s no issue anymore.
Are they vaccinating all the wild birds?
Yes, I remember reading that they’ve set up vaccination centres for wild birds. No appointments though.
Edit: I had it backwards. It’s by appointment only, and they’ve had very low vaccination numbers despite all the bird calls.
This is great news. I wish it was something regular people could buy. I’d add it to my bird feeders.
Accept nurgle gifts!
