Let’s Talk About Bird Flu

[No Coop No Problem]

This is ostrich farm in BC Canada. They got AI in December. Have been fighting and just had a federal court denial for exemption of culling.
So much for natural immunity being utilized. The hundreds of ostriches left are healthy and the government still is going to cull.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ostriches-killed-avian-flu-1.7534114

I bet those ostriches are in far superior health than the politicians ordering them to die and the thugs on the ground coming to murder them

 

[Goosebaby]

This is ostrich farm in BC Canada. They got AI in December. Have been fighting and just had a federal court denial for exemption of culling.
So much for natural immunity being utilized. The hundreds of ostriches left are healthy and the government still is going to cull.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ostriches-killed-avian-flu-1.7534114

The natural immunity of the ostriches only extends to their species and the particular strains of hpai they are resistant to. It’s worth studying to understand it but unless a species like chickens which lack natural immunity to hpai are altered at the genetic level to have an immune response that doesn’t react so severely to hpai they’ll likely never develop it like these ostriches.
Species that don’t have a strong immune response to a virus are typically carriers of that virus so if that is the case with these ostriches, then there are grounds to cull, however if they’re testing negative for hpai then there’s no logical reason to cull.
In a broader scope hpai is pretty much endemic in the wild duck population at this point so there really isn’t a hope of it going away any time soon so eradicating one ostrich farm makes little difference even if they are continually shedding the virus. The virus will still exist and reappear after the ostriches are gone.

It really makes no sense to cull at this point, there’s nothing to be gained from it and it’s not going to make a difference besides harming valuable research by needlessly killing these beautiful birds. Honestly I think the issue is the lack of understanding of bird flu by the court.