Actually, several questions.

What triggers a test?

Who collects the sample?

Who tests the sample?

Who actually gets to see the results?

Thanks.

I don’t deal much with birds but I think you can order a test that requires a cloacal or pharyngeal swab. I’ll have to look into it

That is correct. I did sampling on wild ducks in ND and SD. Both live ducks caught with various methods and what we called hunter harvest ducks. It was done by the USDA. That was a few years ago now. It has been a on going thing for about ten years if not more.

The highly infective avian flu will typically kill chickens in as fast as two days with over 90% mortality rate and very high rates of morbidity ( transmission. One of the reasons it is hard to control is that ducks can be infected but show no signs and thus can be major carriers of the disease, which may be another reason we see spikes in spring and fall with the waterfowl migrations.

Bryce

if you have been out of the loop; first week of Presidential Decree was signed to stop all data collecting with bird flu
sorry but look it up

Where did you find that?

Just don't drink the kool aid about it being contagious to humans.

The data is and can be collected but cannot be published until it's run by someone in the Trump administration. If your going to dis the US or whatever your trying to accomplish get your facts straight.

The studies and summations I have seen have said the mortality can be up to 90%, but is often in the single digits. That's a huge difference.

Killing all potentially exposed domestic birds prevents the development of any genetic immunity and does little to prevent mutation of the virus, since wild waterfowl are the main carriers and the most likely vector for the virus to mutate in.

Newer studies have found that large waterfowl die offs in the US, back in the 1700 and 1800s, were also likely caused by bird flu. As long as wild waterfowl can occasionally migrate to the US from Asia and Europe, we will continue to have Avian Influenza outbreaks.

Keith