The risk is to commercial growers - we are talking about commercial growers that have hundreds of thousands of birds and eggs.I don't get it, since humans have no risk assuming you cook your chicken like normal, what's with the chicken genocide going on here?
If this one backyard grower's bird were to remain shedding virus for up to 6 months, who's to say she wouldn't carry this virus on her boots etc, to the local feedmill when she went to get feed.
Or wild birds could pick up the virus and continue to spread the virus.
It's all about mitigation - officials know they cannot STOP the virus - but what they can do is SLOW it down. Give the wild bird population a chance to stop their migration, settle into their breeding season and the virus will wane.
But - having 100 domestic fowl is a lot of birds that have the potential to carry and pass this virus around. Yes eventually the virus will burn itself out, but when one is talking the amount of money in the Poultry/Duck/Goose business then drastic measures are called for.
And please do not think that these people are callus - they have pets of their own and know the heartache - they have to be tough - you try killing hundreds of thousands of baby birds
