Fowlers on the front line in bird flu battle
Aug 24, 2022
4 minutes
Right about now, wildfowlers up and down the land will be avidly checking their waders for holes, re-hitching plumb lines on decoys and throwing a few dummies about for the dog. The season is almost upon us and, while the warmer days of September and October tend to pass by in a cloud of midges, mosquito bites and fowl-free skies, we all begin to dream about the onset of winter and the arrival of the migratory ducks and geese.
The only fly in this season’s ointment is the spectre of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), more commonly known as bird flu. This seemingly rampant disease has
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