The bigger picture: Protecting our poultry flocks against avian influenza

The spread of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza, bringing losses of hundreds of millions of poultry worldwide with increased spillover into mammals, highlights the urgent need for strengthened biosecurity, monitoring and surveillance, rapid-response mechanisms, and risk communication to safeguard the poultry sector and protect livelihoods and economies. Recently, FAO and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) launched a 10-year global strategy for the prevention and control of