Vaccines and drugs are important, but that's your back-up if all else fails. If we can eliminate the disease in poultry and get it under control we're halfway to being a lot safer.

We found it was H5 influenza.

Sure enough, birds were dying.

Vaccines and drugs are important, but that's your back-up if all else fails.

It's an easy thing to do and if we don't get it under control in poultry, every year it's going to get back in wild birds and every year it's going to spread around again and we'll never get this thing under control.

It makes the disease self-limiting in wild birds.

Currently, all evidence points to domestic ducks as the ones who can shed it and transmit it and not get sick.

In this situation it had a very low impact.