Edward Dowd reposted Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi
🚨Using PCR to justify mass culling of asymptomatic chickens in avian flu outbreaks is like sentencing an entire town to exile because a few dust particles tested positive for smoke. Detecting viral fragments (often indistinguishable from nucleic acids from damaged cells) is not the same as confirming infection, let alone infectiousnessyet entire poultry industries are dismantled based on a molecular whisper, not a biological reality. Even Kary Mullis, the inventor of PCR, warned that it should never be used as a diagnostic tool for infectious diseases.🐓
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Poster Comment:
Grok gave the 157 million figure. Includes geese, ducks and others, not just chickens.