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Why not vaccinate chickens against avian flu, and new form of reproduction found in yellow crazy ants

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The Importance of Biosecurity in Preventing High Path Influenza

The first highly pathogenic Avian influenza hit the United States before we even knew what the influenza virus was in 1924. Influenza has this ability to swap genes, so if a bird becomes infected with two different subtypes, it can take an N from a different H5N and swap it into its H5. So now we're looking at a different situation where these culls, biosecurity is not preventing it from sticking around over multiple seasons.

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