Living with disease? Biosecurity and avian influenza in ostriches

Charles Mather () and Amy Marshall

Agriculture and Human Values, 2011, vol. 28, issue 2, 153-165

Abstract: This paper is about an avian influenza outbreak in South Africa’s commercial ostrich industry. The outbreak was managed according to international best practice and led to the destruction of 30,000 ostriches in two of South Africa’s provinces. However, the industry has a long history of managing low pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks in a different way. We use the 2004 outbreak and earlier approaches to managing disease to shed light on recent debates on how we might live differently with livestock diseases. The paper is based on in-depth interviews with farmers, veterinarians, scientists and agriculture officials. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011

Keywords: Animal disease; Avian influenza; Living with disease; Ostriches; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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