Vaccinated California Condors Being Released From Captivity … – Precision Vaccinations

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In response to the ongoingHighly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreak in the western United States, tenvaccinated juvenile California condors will be released in the San Simeon mountains from November28 to December12, 2023.

The Condors were vaccinated witha killed, inactivated product conditionally licensed by the Center for Veterinary Biologics in 2016. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has testedHAPI vaccine candidates on vultures in North Carolina for months.

This 'bird-flu' vaccineis designed to protectbirds, not humans.

The U.S. government has already approved abird flu vaccinefor people and continues to invest in newer avian influenza vaccine candidates.

On November 23, 2023, John Fitzrandolph reported for The San Luis Obispo Tribunethat 21 condors died from HAPI infections in Arizona earlier in 2023. Currently, the total population of condors isestimated at 347 birds in the wild spread across California, Arizona, and Baja, Mexico.

TheCalifornia Condor Recovery Programis an international multi-entity effort to recover the endangered California condor.was last updated in November 2023.

The program aimsto take steps toward recovery by establishing two geographically distinct, self-sustaining populations, each with 150 birds in the wild and at least 15 breeding pairs, with a third population of condors retained in captivity.

California condors,members of the vulture family Cathartidae, areone of the largest flying birds in North America, with a wingspan of nearly 10 feet.

In the wild, California condors may live up to 60 years. They mate for life and are attentive parents.

Avianinfluenza (Bird Flu) is a disease caused by influenzatype Aviruses that occur naturally among birds. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reportedin June2023, confirmingthe overall risk to human health associated with the ongoing HAPI outbreak in wild birds and poultryremains low.

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