INTERNATIONAL H5N1 HIGH PATH AVIAN INFLUENZA EFFORTS

摘要

Avian influenza is one of the more high profile and important issues we are dealing with these days - one for which we are preparing on many fronts. Indeed, we have a huge domestic effort to prepare for an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza(HPAI) in domestic poultry, and USDA is working along with others in the government to prepare for a human pandemic that could result from a viral mutation making the currently circulating Asian H5N1 HPAI strain easily transmissible among humans. But, in an effort to PREVENT the spread to poultry in the United States, and to reduce the opportunity for a genetic shift that could result in a human pandemic, we have efforts underway to reduce the virus load in birds internationally.