In the afternoon I attended a Infectious Diseases Symposium, hosted by the Centre of Emerging Infectious Dzs of my university. The speaker are very prestigious and the talks are quite interesting. It not so much on the management of specific dzs but rather the poliitcal and epidemiological aspect of disease. Most interstingly is how much time some top notch geneticists, epidemiologists, economists and politicians spent on studying chickens. Half of the time spent on how we should treat our chickens, how we should vaccinate them and so on.
Some interesting facts concerning chickens I got from these talks:
1)Chicken and other poultries is our main source of flu virus (we all know that)
2)It is very crucial for geneticists to trace the tracks of infection of flu virus among diff spieces and groups of chicken, as they do in human...very important
3)It is also very important for the geneticists and microbiologists to be able to reduce the harmful effect of flu virus in chicken, so that their eggs can survive well when infected with flu (that is because we culture our vaccines in chick eggs, so we must make sure the eggs can survive and grow virus without being destroyed by the virus)
4)It is also important to control the spread of flu within chicken farms, and across the borders. Here we can see alot of similarities between how they treat chicken like men and how they treat men like chickens.
Infectious Diseases Symposium Poster
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