Raina MacIntyre
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221 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard 4 Aug
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Well, the free range poultry are the biggest risk because they're the ones that are exposed to the elements and that the wild birds can infect.
So I believe some of the big poultry producers are already putting coverings over their free range areas.
It's not like you've got to do sophisticated surveillance to detect it.
The birds will die.
And again, the map, which really the hotspots are really in the metropolitan areas of Sydney and Melbourne.
You need to keep your chickens in a coop or something, you know, not let them roam around.
And we eat eggs a lot more.
Yeah, it's going to have a massive economic impact.
I mean, you know, you can't underestimate the economic impact of it.
You know, I've been following bird flu since 1997.
And when there's shortages, other than the economic impact, it's also got a food security impact.
And for some people, it's the most affordable form of protein.
I think in terms of the poultry, everyone's pretty aware the poultry industry has certainly been watching what's happening overseas, and they're doing everything that should be done.
One of the things that I think in looking at what happened overseas is compensating farmers that are heavily hit, you know, so that they can survive and continue their business is really important.
The big problems arise if it hits the dairy farms because unlike poultry, cattle don't just all drop dead when they're infected.
So dairy farmers are less likely to report if the infection comes in.
So there's lots of lessons we can learn from the US, for example, where they just didn't take the action they needed, which actually ended up harming the industry more than protecting it because it allowed it to spread.
Overseas, as this virus has kind of marched across the world,
It's a completely different pattern from what it had been historically, where it was just sporadic.
It would cause an outbreak and then we'd respond to the outbreaks and it would disappear.
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