Questions and answers about the avian flu crisis and its impact on Spanish farms

We address in 10 questions the keys to understanding what is happening with the impact of avian influenza in Spain and that has led to the confinement of all birds. The impact of avian flu on farms has dominated headlines for a week because the Government has decided to confine all birds that are raised outdoors as a prevention against the current impact and the foreseeable arrival of infected migratory birds from northern Europe. It has been a week in which questions have arisen about a pathology known to the scientific community and that now keeps an entire poultry sector on alert, on which many families depend. The week began with the adoption, by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, of a tightening of preventive measures due to the increase in cases, the forecast of falling temperatures, and the maps of comarcal risk. They were applied in 1,200 municipalities and included the prohibition of the raising of poultry outdoors. Just a day later, the Minister of ...