Dr. Claire Jardine explains One Health approach to avian influenza at poultry industry event

Jardine's Alliance-funded Special Inititives project uses a One Health approach that recognizes the interaction of humans, animals and the environment to investigate on-farm risk factors for transmission and infection of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) viruses.

As Jardine, researcher in the Ontario Veterinary College's Department of Pathobiology, explained at the recent Poultry Industry Council Research Impacts Day in Elora, everything is interconnected. Avian influenza can infect raptors, scavenging crows, foxes, cats, dairy cattle and other mammals.

“We need to rethink the complexity of the transmission cycle,” she said.

The study runs until 2025.

Read the story in Farmtario: Understanding transmission of the avian influenza virus