Which is why I was very specific in saying it is the COMMERCIAL poultry industry that is going to be the first line of defense in the US against the mutations.
If someone brings it into one of those houses on their shoes, you are right the whole building of birds will die fast - because they will be destroyed. As will any bird in any other house on that property.
My best friend's husband manages 17 of those house, the smallest 5 of which are diagonally across the road from me. I know how picky they are about who goes in and out of those house and how they do it.
My husband's company services computers for Perdue, he despises having to go to the hatchery because of all the disinfecting he has to go through....including his vehicle as it enters and leaves the premises.
Avian Influenza is not taken lightly by the poultry industry.......the 2004 outbreak on DelMarVa caused the Destruction of 3 flocks in Delaware and Maryland and was traced back to a live market in NYC.
Gabz, maybe you could explain how the commercial poultry industry will be a "first line of defense" against the mutations?
I am under the impression that this flu will mutate into a human to human form in other ways, such as in Asia, in people who live in much more primitive conditions, or in other farm animals that they live in close proximity to... I don't understand how our commercial poultry industry will protect us, but maybe I have misunderstood something.