Poultry Vaccination as a strategy for controlling Avian Influenza in commercial birds

[Sally Furniss]

Poultry Vaccination as a strategy for controlling AI in commercial birds

Outbreaks of avian influenza in the poultry industry cause devastating economic losses and is generally controlled through extensive culling of infected birds. Alternative strategies also use vaccination as a supplementary control measure during avian influenza outbreaks.

Advantages of Vaccination

• Vaccination reduces susceptibility to infection.
• A higher dose of virus is necessary to infect the vaccinated birds.
• Vaccinated birds shed less virus.
  - Decreased contamination of the environment.
  - Decreased risk of human infection
• Used strategically vaccination compliments a stamping out strategy by slowing/stopping the spread of the virus

For more information on poultry vaccination see:

• www.avian-influenza.com
• Vaccination as Part of an Avian Influenza Control Strategy
• The use of vaccination as an option for the control of avian influenza (pdf)

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/artic...s-part-of-an-avian-influenza-control-strategy