AI prevention and innovative biosecurity measures

Lasers are being trialled on a Dutch free-range poultry farm to see if they can remove the threat of avian influenza contamination from wild birds. Research into the use of lasers as a repellent for wild birds has been taking place since the 1970s, first as birdstrike prevention at airfields and then for dispersing wild birds causing agricultural crop damage. Dr Armin Elbers, senior epidemiologist at Wageningen University and Research, said the current study was looking at scaring wild ducks an