Did you know that rabies kills one person every 9 minutes?Did you know that 59,000 people die of rabies worldwide every year?Did you know that almost half of the victims are children under 15 years of age? Did you know that vaccinating 70% of dog po...
Surveillance is a key part of our work to protect at-risk communities now, and in the future. This means manning 24-hour emergency hotlines, deploying rabies response teams, and setting up what we call Integrated Bite Case Management (IBCM).This is...
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How do HPAI outbreaks occur? Usually with some type of contact with other birds. Common biosecurity failures. “People had some contact, whether wild birds and droppings, feathers or debris, or contact with backyard birds,” Rings expla...
HPAI prevention requires ‘buckle-up’ mentality to biosecurity. The only option for poultry farms to prevent an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is 100% adherence to biosecurity rules. “You can be doing 99% of [biosecurity] corr...
So far, 2022 has been a deadly year for the world’s birds. Avian influenza continues to rise, and this is hot on the heels of two years that the U.S. CDC says saw more outbreaks than the previous four years combined. Each outbreak of avian influen...
Avian Influenza: Effective Biosecurity is Critical to Prevention.Avian influenza (AI) is a very important infectious disease of both poultry and other birds caused by influenza type A viruses. Although multiple viral strains exist, the disease appea...
Rodent clean out guide for poultry producers.The following guide includes step-by-step recommendations for the control of mice, Norway rats, and roof rats in and around poultry facilities during the bird clean-out phase of production. The guide incl...
A warehouse rented by Ukrainian poultry company MHP was destroyed by a fire caused by shelling from Russian forces, causing the company to lose about US$8.5 million worth of poultry products. According to a press release published on the London Sto...
Poultry producers worldwide should be on the alert for emerging strains of avian influenza virus that are either more transmissible or cause more severe disease than prior strains. According to researchers led by The Pirbright Institute in the UK,...