Europe’s bird flu surge: Is it time to vaccinate?

Arjan Stegeman, chair of the Expert Group on Animal Diseases, would like to offer poultry farmers some encouragement in light of the current avian influenza outbreaks, which are occurring in rapid succession. “I can understand that poultry farmers are getting hopeless eyeing the disease outbreaks,” he says. He also warns about complacency. “The worst thing that can happen to us is that farmers think: ‘It doesn’t matter what I do anyway’. Try to get biosecurity on your farm in the bes