If this return this year has what worry them poultry farmersit is the wild bird as a vector of transmission that worries public health experts.
Because unlike farmed birds, we cannot contain them and even less euthanize them en masse.
At most, we can see that certain species, such as the barnacle goose, in Norway last winter, seem more vulnerable than others, which, in theory, would perhaps make it possible to issue preventive alerts when it s These are migratory species passing through a region.
Avian flu has infected a few humans
The first documented case of a human infected with this new strain dates back to December, in Great Britain: it was a pensioner who raised ducks.
In April, the state of Colorado reported a first case in North America in a slaughterhouse worker.
