Poultry experts using Google Earth against Bird Flu in USPoultry experts are making planning to use their computer images for the preparation of the expected arrival of deadly bird flu in US. Geographic Information System technology is using the computer to pin point the locations of commercial poultry flocks, feed mills and processing plants. When it appears in US, it will help to create buffer zones around an infected flock and contain the H5N1 strain.



The Poultry experts were using the Google Earth, which combines satellite imagery, maps and the company’s search engine to span the globe. It gives the details of locations of schools near large chicken an and turkey farms and production facilities.



The H5N1 virus has already infected birds and chickens in Asia, Africa and Europe and caused more than 120 deaths. It is expected that this summer it will move to North America due to birds are flying from Asia to Alaska and southwards.



Still there are no signs of the bird flu in Alaska. The first GIS technology was developed by Davison and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998.



Via: eweek