A duck getting its flu jab at a French farm in November 2023
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France would have had masses of outbreaks of H5N1 hen flu on poultry farms previously 12 months had it now not vaccinated geese in opposition to the illness for the primary time, consistent with a modelling find out about. As a substitute, there have been simply 10.
“The realization is that vaccination made an enormous distinction,” says Timothée Vergne on the Nationwide Veterinary Faculty of Toulouse, France.
Whilst hen flu vaccines for poultry have lengthy been utilized in some…
