Bird flu: learning lessons from traditional human-animal relations
... has exponentially increased the risk of infectious diseases. Thus, when the H5N2 virus, highly pathogenic in birds but not ... Transmission from the wild to the domestic. What do these precautionary measures mean for farmers? Financial compensation for ... and foot-and-mouth disease. Farmers protect themselves and their animals from these diseases by combining vaccination with ... It triggers an epizootic - a disease event involving a species of animal in a specific area - rather than an epidemic, a term ...