Get ready for a re-run of 2001

Originally from: Joyce
                        
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October 29th 2005 ~ "Vaccinate" urges Soil Association. "Culling and good biosecurity" says Debby Reynolds

 Heart sinking listening on Farming Today This Week (Listen Again ); the Soil Association's letter to the PM about ring vaccination is discussed and the question of validation rears its head yet again – this despite the fact that Intervet's Nobilis Influenza H5 vaccine has been so successful in Hong Kong and, as Dr Paul von Aarle says below "is an alternative to mass culling." (and of course prevents having to bring free-range birds indoors. Chief Veterinary Officer, Debby Reynolds, asked why vaccination isn't a "much higher priority", while at least admitting it was now the "first choice" for FMD, said,
 "for bird flu we do not have a marketing authorisation...isn't available for poultry generally across Europe"What she means is that it doesn't have political approval. This is not the same as not being available. Effective vaccines are available – just as they were in 2001. After four long years of daily updates and the urging of lessons to be learned, we watch what is happening in the UK with a sickening feeling of deja vu. Once again, for want to political will to validate the effective, modern tools of disease control, killing en masse with all its distress and waste is likely to be used again.