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Speaker 1: Version of the bird flu. So what are we going

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Speaker 1: to do. We got on the Tigo bird farm here

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Speaker 1: about forty thousand birds in the same shit. They've been culled.

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Speaker 1: MPI have put all the poultry experts on hold. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the NPI Director General Ray Smith is with us. Ray morning, Mike,

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Speaker 1: was this day in one way, shape or form, always.

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Speaker 2: Coming Well, this is not the big bird flu worry

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Speaker 2: we had. Actually, even though we've been promoting this quite heavily,

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Speaker 2: this is not one that's spread by migratory birds that

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Speaker 2: around the world, which hasn't arrived in New Zealand yet.

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Speaker 2: But this is a development of a bird flu strain

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Speaker 2: that is quite common in poultry farms around the world.

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Speaker 2: It's a series strain and it's largely confined to the

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Speaker 2: poultry industry. And so look, it's a bit of an

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Speaker 2: update on the farm in Otago. It's a farm that's

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Speaker 2: got around one hundred and sixty thousand birds across four

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Speaker 2: big barns. Another barn when positive for this highly pathogenic

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Speaker 2: virus just last night. That's not unexpected. We can have

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Speaker 2: something of this on a farm and so we'll be

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Speaker 2: actually coming stage two farms about eighty thousand birds and

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Speaker 2: we'll get that underway tomorrow. It's quite a bit of planning,

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Speaker 2: as you'll appreciate, to.

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Speaker 1: Make how do you kill them?

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Speaker 2: Container ied CO two, which is the standard method used

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Speaker 2: internationally in use hearing Zalan.

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Speaker 1: Okay, would you expect it to leak properties?

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Speaker 2: Well, we're mapping to half a dozen properties that have

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Speaker 2: links to this particular property. Remember, biosecurity viruses and diseases

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Speaker 2: move through the movement of people and products or live animals,

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Speaker 2: and so we're just checking those to make sure that

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Speaker 2: it hasn't got there. And it'll take a couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks before we really are confident about the outer limits

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Speaker 2: of with the viruses. We expect it to be relatively contained.

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Speaker 2: But this has got about a fourteen day incubation period,

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Speaker 2: so we'll take a little while before we certain.

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Speaker 1: You speak with a level of confidence. Is that fair?

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Speaker 2: Well, we've been through this a few times, Mike, I

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Speaker 2: mean in my time here. You know, we've removed infectious

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Speaker 2: verstal disease, chicken virus, We've we removed salmonella from eggs.

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Speaker 2: Of course, dealt with micros, pleasant abou eve evil, Queensland

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Speaker 2: fruit fly, a number of tomato and potato diseases. Look,

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Speaker 2: I think we'll get on top of this. We've got

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Speaker 2: the farm manager there, John Mackay, who runs Mainland Pultry. Look,

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Speaker 2: he's an excellent operator. He went to the UK with

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Speaker 2: my team just a couple of months ago to look

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Speaker 2: at how we manage highly pathogenic avian INTWINDSA. I've got

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Speaker 2: a lot of confidence with the John before. I think

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Speaker 2: we'll get this done.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff right, Appreciate it very much. Rich Smith, who's

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Speaker 1: the MPI Director General.

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