“A highly contagious and deadly strain of avian influenza was confirmed on a sixth Lancaster County poultry operation on Thursday, requiring 18,000 birds to be destroyed in hopes of curtailing the virus's spread,” LNP | LancasterOnline's Sean Sauro reported. “The farm's exact location within the county was not revealed by officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The infected property was identified as a facility producing ‘commercial broiler breeder pullets’ — young birds that would later be grown for meat. ... Across all six commercial poultry properties, 3,825,800 birds — a combination of egg layers, meat birds and pullets — have died as a result of the infection or, more likely, were depopulated, a term used to describe the quick euthanization of birds in a flock.” Infected wild waterfowl migrating from Europe are believed to be the source of this highly pathogenic strain of avian flu.
The scale of this disaster for Pennsylvania's $7.1 billion poultry industry is hard to fathom. And unfortunately, Lancaster County, with its 1,600 poultry farms, is its epicenter.
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First thing that came to mind is are have any of these farms tried Ivermectin instead of just killing off millions of chickens?
Below is what I found:
http://outbreaknewstoday.com/fighting-west-nile-virus-by-adding-ivermectin-to-backyard-bird-feeders-57645/
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Below is a clip from the link:
Holcomb and her colleagues initially used backyard chickens to test whether mixing ivermectin into birdfeed could have a large enough impact on mosquito populations to affect WNV transmission. They found evidence of increased mortality in mosquito populations that fed on the treated chickens and a reduction in WNV infections in chickens that ate the ivermectin bird feed compared with those that did not. Based on the positive results from this work, they then moved to evaluate its potential impact with wild birds that are regular visitors to backyard birdfeeders.
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You have to wonder if Ivermcetin would help in this situation?
Pa birds being affected by migrating birds from Europe?
What ...? Artic terns maybe?Europe?,,,to Pennsylvania???
Something is wrong with this story!
Also, would spreading diatomaceous earth in the chicken yards and mosquito prone areas help?
In for prayer time.
3:30.