Tens of thousands and thousands of poultry are being saved indoors or have been slaughtered due to avian influenza. Without widespread vaccination of birds, free-range chickens and eggs may very well be off the menu perpetually in some nations
Life
28 December 2022
Chickens roaming outdoors is now a uncommon sight in some European nations Vicki Beaver/Alamy
Across Europe, many households could have skipped their conventional Christmas roast turkey. Poultry meat and eggs are in brief provide amid a catastrophic outbreak of avian flu.
Increasingly, it’s wanting as if the one strategy to save the poultry trade is that if birds like turkeys and chickens are vaccinated in opposition to the H5N1 virus behind the newest outbreak, and European governments appear to be prepared to make that occur.
Since October 2021, H5N1 has hit birds throughout Europe and …