Region in efforts to prevent bird flu from wiping out poultry industry

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Wednesday December 2, 2015 – Agricultural officials are pushing for heightened biosecurity on poultry farms across the region in a bid to prevent avian influenza – better known as bird flu – from wiping out the multimillion poultry industry.

Livestock Development Officer at the sub-regional office of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), Dr Cedric Lazarus said there is a strong likelihood that the disease, which caused the culling of millions of turkeys and chickens in the United States earlier this year, could reach the region.

He warned that this could devastate Caribbean countries and urged regional farmers to prepare for such an eventuality.

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