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Avian Influenza: Disease Control

Commons · Question 92717 · Tabled 19 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 1 Dec 2025

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Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what investigations her Department has made into alternative to the culling of healthy flocks of caged birds in areas of wider avian flu outbreak.

Answer

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 1 Dec 2025

Culling is the most effective means of controlling and stamping out an avian influenza outbreak together with movement restrictions, high standards of biosecurity, separation of poultry from wild birds and surveillance. Preventative vaccination for avian ...