Preparing for winter for the best chance to prevent bird flu

Winter is coming, as the phrase from popular TV drama Game of Thrones goes. For characters of the hit series it means monsters marching on humanity to wreak terror, for poultry farmers it’s avian influenza. In the UK the risk of the disease returning, after last winter’s unprecedented number of outbreaks, is very real. The government has raised the official risk from low to medium, mainly in light of H5N8 outbreaks across Europe. Italy has reported 17 recent outbreaks of the virus, with on