“When the disease takes hold, there’s nothing you can do,” said Mark Gorton, who has seen more than 100,000 deaths in the last month alone. “You can’t give them medicine, you can’t give them extra bedding or make them a bit warmer. There’s nothing you can do and it’s absolutely soul destroying”.
So worrying is the speed and scale of the outbreak that on Monday ministers announced a “mandatory national housing order” – or lockdown – in a bid to slow the UK epidemic down ahead of Christmas. It mirrors a compulsory housing order introduced between November 2021 and May 2022, which some critics say was lifted too early.
For the moment, at least, this latest disease outbreak is thankfully almost entirely confined to avian populations. Nevertheless, it has been devastating to many.
Mr Gorton, the founder of Traditional Norfolk Poultry, has witnessed the death of 10% of his free range organic chickens and turkeys. “Every night is a sleepless night,” he told The Telegraph. “It’s a very, very worrying time.”
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***From the Telegraph’s Global Health desk:***
“When the disease takes hold, there’s nothing you can do,” said Mark Gorton, who has seen more than 100,000 deaths in the last month alone. “You can’t give them medicine, you can’t give them extra bedding or make them a bit warmer. There’s nothing you can do and it’s absolutely soul destroying”.
So worrying is the speed and scale of the outbreak that on Monday ministers announced a “mandatory national housing order” – or lockdown – in a bid to slow the UK epidemic down ahead of Christmas. It mirrors a compulsory housing order introduced between November 2021 and May 2022, which some critics say was lifted too early.
For the moment, at least, this latest disease outbreak is thankfully almost entirely confined to avian populations. Nevertheless, it has been devastating to many.
Mr Gorton, the founder of Traditional Norfolk Poultry, has witnessed the death of 10% of his free range organic chickens and turkeys. “Every night is a sleepless night,” he told The Telegraph. “It’s a very, very worrying time.”
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Man who kills chickens for a living cries about chickens being killed.
Has bird flu robbed you of that nice holiday you had planned for next year? So sad.