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Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat

Published July 8, 2015 | Video Starts at 18:32

But again, what you're talking about with a vaccine, it is only going to be a certain percentage effective to begin with. Plus we've got a real problem with vaccine production in this country, do we not? I mean, We have a hard time producing enough vaccines sometimes for human flu. would we have, I mean, if we start trying to vaccinate 300,000 chickens or 300 million chickens, couple hundred million turkeys, do we even have even close capacity for that? (18:32–18:38)

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Asserts that the U.S. struggles with vaccine production for human flu.

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“There are 300 million egg laying chickens. Over 40 million of them have been affected by [avian influenza] and have been destroyed.”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 01:03-01:11
“That's 13.3% of the total egg laying population.”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 01:10-01:14
“There are 238 million turkeys raised every year. 8 million have had to be euthanized because of this outbreak.”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 01:14-01:22
“That's estimated to be about an $8 billion impact on, onto in our economy.”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 01:21-01:28
“Fortunately we have not seen a new outbreak since about mid June.”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 01:28-01:32
“There's no business interruption insurance. You can't buy this kind of insurance in the open market.”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 04:27-04:31
“It is federal law that the chickens have to be destroyed and it's federal law that they, you know, there's indemnification for those owners…”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 06:39-06:48
“It would take four to six weeks for the owners of the chickens to be indemnified.”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 07:01-07:06
“Mr. Schneider...is exposed. I thought we had coverage. I thought he was just having a hard time obtaining that coverage. I'm afraid he's…”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 08:21-23:52
“In the current Structure, we have these sites. Best case, if you restructured the process, I mean, because sometimes tests take a while.”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 10:18-10:25
“We could have destroyed that flock of chickens within a day or two. Within your guidelines, 24 to 48 hours, rather than seven days.”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 12:30-12:38
“There's a real top priority of what we ought to do as a federal government to speed that process, to limit the damage.”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 12:47-12:55
“Is there a program in place to indemnify Mr. Schneider as an operator?”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 13:09-13:16
“We had a pretty robust vaccine production capability. But then it was reduced dramatically.”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 19:30-19:36
“It really was because it was a very unattractive business. People were being sued and people just exited the business.”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 20:17-20:23
“There’s more capacity available for animal vaccines because you just don't really risk the liability problem.”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 21:22-21:30
“The tradition of the family farm is dwindling and we can't allow that to happen.”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 23:33-23:38
“There's got to be some indemnification, some insurance that will keep you in business...I'm shocked that we don't have that, you know…”
Chairman Johnson remarks at HSGAC hearing on avian flu threat | Uploaded July 8, 2015 | 24:35-24:35