Mass culling of birds following an outbreak of a highly pathogenic disease is a painful and delicate job. Burning and burying live birds is unacceptable and gives the poultry industry a bad image. Here are some more humane ways to deal with emergencydepletion. The worldwide panornitic due to highly pathogenic avian influenza has created the need for efficient methods of euthanasia and disposal of poultry flocks. These operations were poorly planned and executed during the early outbreaks in Southeast Asia in 2004 as well as recently in some parts of the Middle East and Africa. Since this time, extension of infection to Eurasia and Africa and the threat of emergence in the poultry populations of the EU-12 predicates humane depletion and safe disposal of flocks.
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