Originally posted by khunmoon
I'm aware of vaccinations being a short sighted solution, but do you know which countries who actually practice it - and what the impacts are?
Thanks khunmoon.
...Factory farming routinely uses vaccines and low-level antibiotics - both have the effect of creating superflus and superbugs.
The H5N1 vaccine issue is controversial. Countries hold off on vaccinating - then if they can afford it, start doing so to protect their poultry
industries. But it's a bad idea - and as you say - a short term solution.
RE: Who uses H5N1 vaccines, and who doesn't. ...Have to check my files, and unable to do that right now. But as I recall...
Last year(?), Japan reported that an H5N1 vaccine resulted in a new strain - I believe.
China and Vietnam vaccinate I think - maybe some European nations. Not Indonesia that I know, but maybe now.
The problem is that culling is the best solution - but small farmers and poor people can't absorb the cost.
Most of the resistance and strain mixing comes from corporate industrial factory farms - but they ride on the compassion factor, and help fight
against culling as a solution (vaccinating instead).
...So even though nations per se may not have a vaccination program, the industrial factory farms do it to protect their investments. Even when the
national policy prohibits vaccination.
