We need to place the avian flu detector on a robotic platform to move up and down the ranks of the coup chicken. Then identify those infected birds and burn the infected chickens. If this virus were to adapt itself and fuse with a human virus or influenza, it could literally be unstoppable. SARS turned out to be a very bad deal for travel, tourism and the overall economy for those countries that had cases. The Centers for Disease Control as well as the health and disease prevention departments of many foreign governments have expressed concern about the possibility of a pandemic. Avian influenza can now infect humans, and we are concerned that it may combine with and form a new disease. We watched the spread of AIDS as it escaped from us, modified itself into additional threads, and continued to spread. Viruses, pathogens, diseases, smallpox, and flue can evolve much faster than we are used to in the animal species we carefully study.
The World Health Organization is very concerned about this, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mr. Tommy Thompson, recently referred to it. So we know we need to monitor the incoming food products coming into this country and protect our bird populations here. Given Tyson Foods’ awesome lobby, we might have been surprised to learn of the initial coverage if the virus did in fact start infecting our food supply. Tyson Foods is fighting for revenge for its markets and employs hundreds of thousands of people. We must also not forget the outbreak in New Castle, Pennsylvania.
To prevent this, I suggest a robotic chicken robot. The robot will be on the tracks and patrol the chicken coups. A migratory bird could infect a chicken farm in the Carolinas on its way to the Florida sun for the winter, thus introducing the infection into our food supply. Therefore, just because there is no virus today among the chickens on the farm does not mean that all the chickens are safe tomorrow. Currently there is also the threat of human sabotage of our food supply from international terrorism.
Robotic Sentinels will patrol the chicken coops at night as they move up and down the islands using RFID sensors and readers. Each coup will have RFID tags on the gates, so it will record the readings as it travels up and down the rows. Temperature recording to maximize growth and efficiency and to detect avian influenza.
The poultry industry is huge in our country and is as big as the beef industry or bigger than it. We cannot afford to lose it or even risk the possibility of an outbreak like it did in; Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong; Here in the United States. Bots can ensure that this does not happen. Meanwhile, we continue to search for a vaccine for birds and for humans. Computer modeling shows that an outbreak of bird flu in the United States could be more than just economic devastation. The robot will be on a track platform so it can be used in rural chicken farms with dirt floors;
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The robot would have sensors, which would identify the bird in question and an attached incinerator box, much like the Bomb Squad has been scaled back to save costs because it doesn’t have to be as powerful. Engines can be smaller and lighter materials to save on price allowing economies of scale to provide additional cost savings for rapidly increasing global use to protect the food supply.
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A robotic arm will be deployed with the food to prevent the bird from trying to escape.
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Then, it picks up the bird and places it in the on-board box incinerator and records that the pen misses one bird, and in real time notifies the on-board data center of the pen read as the robot swipes the RFID tag on the pen. The robot will control the stock and keep the sickness away from the coup. Data can be output via USB Thumb Drive in the morning companion to update and sync inventories.
RFID tag tracking combined with proper stock control software can easily solve such problems with the poultry industry as the beef industry with BSE. Robots can keep us safe from bird flu, by keeping humans away from any infected animal. Prompt elimination of infected animals protects our food supply.