[Eggs] Why is it so difficult to contain the Bird Flu?

[special]

During 2020, they told us to quarantine to slow the spread of Covid.

Well, it's hard to quarantine people.

But it should be straightforward to quarantine birds, right?

It's not like these chicken fly from farm to farm to spread the flu. They stay inside in overcrowded cages, and if they are lucky, they see sunlight once in a while.

What is spreading the bird flu from one farm, to another?

[Spock]

special wrote:
What is spreading the bird flu from one farm, to another?

Wild birds .... wild,? some of them are furious.

[NewtonMP2100]

…..fish gotta’ swim……birds gotta’ fly……..

[Tiangou]

special wrote:
What is spreading the bird flu from one farm, to another?

Wild birds fly over the farm and drop presents.

https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/virus-trans...birds.html

[bfd]

Birds don't mask up, and they crap all over the place. All it takes is one bird or one splat in the middle of an egg farm to spell disaster.

For that same reason, this is spreading through dairy cows as well - and probably the cattle on large ranches and in feed lots.

The only ways to stop this are to "kill all the birds" - or figure out how to stop the spread within those wild flocks - or start believing that:

[special]

Tiangou wrote:
[quote=special]
What is spreading the bird flu from one farm, to another?

Wild birds fly over the farm and drop presents.

https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/virus-trans...birds.html
So don't let them out!

[vision63]

Pretty sure other kinds of birds hang out.

[DewGuy]

I imagine that this is one of the sources of spread.



Also last year or maybe the year before there was a story going around telling people not to provide food or drink for wild birds as it was a source of spreading bird flu.

[Acer]

At this time, it is not thought to be a threat to or from songbirds. Waterfowl are the big vector.
So don't no one start raging at the chickadees.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....birds don't use condoms....???