Re: Scotsmen

"Frank de Groot" <franciad@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Why not just stop the use of the chickens in the first place?

Because avian influenza is "avian", not neccessarily "chicken".

The primary vector of avian influenza to people is chickens. Getting
rid of the pigs gets rid of some percentage of the cases; getting rid
of the chickens gets ride of essentially all of them. Without that
resevoir of human-managed and highly-contacted chickens, it wouldn't
matter what we did with pigs.

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