Assessing the threat of AI

It may have been a quiet winter for avian influenza last year, but that doesn’t mean the threat is gone. Poultry World reports. Britain must invest more in preparing for a mass-scale avian influenza outbreak, according to new analysis. Daniel Roberts, author of the recently published Nuffield report Living and Dying with Avian Influenza, says that the UK would struggle to manage a major outbreak of the disease. Mr Roberts’ research took him to a number of countries that have suffered majo