thanks for the ping - might as well ping everyone.....
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An avian flu outbreak on a Delaware farm disrupted industry operations in 2004, triggering a regional quarantine, bird restrictions and the forced slaughter of hundreds of thousands of birds. Investigators detected the disease on an independent farm that was producing and ferrying birds to live-sale markets in New York.
Delaware officials said the 2004 virus was stamped out by quick government action and a decision to compost dead birds inside sealed-up poultry houses, limiting opportunities for exposure beyond individual farms.
Scuse said he was scheduled to be interviewed Thursday by a BBC film crew preparing a report on avian flu that included 2004 government actions.
Since the 2004 outbreak, Delmarva Poultry Industry and health agencies developed a plan including education for poultry workers, protective clothing and decontamination equipment, monitoring worker health and using human flu vaccines to minimize risks that human and avian viruses will combine in dangerous ways.
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State Division of Public Health officials meanwhile reported making "extensive" preparations for combating a human epidemic in the event the most-dangerous strain of bird flu jumps from birds to humans.
Health managers were taking some cues from a little-noticed avian influenza control plan developed earlier this year by a joint poultry industry and government task force.
The task force plan focuses heavily on prevention and treatment of flu among workers in the Delmarva Peninsula's $1.7 billion-a-year broiler industry. Farms on the peninsula produced more than 561 million broilers, roasters and cornish hens last year, making chicken the region's largest and most important agricultural industry.
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary John A. Hughes said he worked closely with Scuse during the 2004 outbreak, and said that environmental restrictions on dead bird disposal might have to be relaxed in the event of another virus episode.
"As long as it's in a state where it's transmissible from poultry to human beings, then you have a huge problem in containing it and keeping it from spreading," Hughes said. "It will probably necessitate extermination of the entire population, which is a substantial environmental problem."
this stuff is taken very seriously in this region.....
Thank you for the ping bitt, would have missed it otherwise.