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The title to your post suggests that "Every" chicken will be tested before slaughter. From reading the article that is not the case.

Seems they said a sampling will be tested to see if the virus has infected any flocks. Positive flocks will be euthanized.

I watched a conference on C-Span yesterday with the HHS officials conducting a forum on how to get ready, if and when, an outbreak of bird flu does become pandemic. They are hoping it does not happen this year as they do not have an inoculation yet. I wonder what the lag time between the shot and the onset of immunity will be?

The key is isolation and quarantine. They said "ALL workplaces and schools will have to be shut down.

I remember the flu outbreak in 1957 and 1968. Dairymen around the county helped each other by milking each others cows. I don't remember anyone dying but there sure were a lot that caught it.
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