Kevin Folta kertoo:
Viewpoint: There is a solution to the devastating poultry pandemic – but anti-technology activist groups and outdated regulations are blocking itTämä ei luultavasti hänen mielestään olisi ratkaisu:
In 2015 over 50 million domestic chickens and turkeys were lost to HPIA, with an estimated loss of $3.3 billion. The losses manifested as devastating losses to individual producers, higher costs of meat and eggs for consumers, and of course, suffering and euthanization of a massive number of farm animals. Vaccination is unlikely to be an effective solution because of the high degree of antigenic variation in the virus, and additional cost to producers.
Mutta tämä olisi:
But there is at least one proven solution—a dead end host.
A technology was developed that blocks transmission of the virus from the first infected bird. Scientists in the UK used a genetic engineering tweak to develop a chicken that could catch the disease, but not spread it to other chickens. The same approach would likely work across all commercial poultry flocks.
Ehkä noin. Toisaalta koko kanakannan uusiminen – sitä se kai edellyttäisi – olisi valtava urakka. Koronarokote ihmisillä antaa toivoa, että silläkin suunnalla voidaan ehkä kuitenkin keksiä jotain ratkaisevaa.
