This week, with European Union approval, France began vaccinating geese and ducks in the south-west.
"They are of no significance compared with the disease you're vaccinating against, " Dr Millington added.
And these field trials are blocked from going ahead because of the ban on vaccinating cattle.
Vaccinating soldiers the traditional way is slow, costly and (for the troops concerned) unpleasant.
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The minister insisted that culling alone was still the best policy rather than vaccinating animals at risk.
The United States stopped vaccinating people in 1972, and about 90% of the population now lacks smallpox immunity.
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Wales has chosen to follow a policy of vaccinating badgers, while Scotland does not have a TB problem.
Given the difficulties of isolating outbreaks, some countries have resorted to vaccinating poultry.
But that plan was scrapped in March and a range of control measures, including vaccinating badgers, were brought in.
Get enough people on drugs and it would be like vaccinating them: the chain of transmission would be broken.
Public Health Wales says the number of cases in the outbreak has passed 1, 000, with about 5, 000 youngsters still needing vaccinating.
Vaccinating the young would reduce the spread of flu, thus saving lives.
Instead, it is trying to contain the disease, which is afflicting five provinces, by vaccinating livestock in a ring around each affected ranch.
Vaccinating a healthy baby may not seem as urgent as treating a sick patient, but the long-term costs of not doing so are incalculable.
In the 1890s Coley started vaccinating other patients with killed bacteria.
In the hope of increasing their sales of chilled beef, Argentina, Paraguay and part of southern Brazil had recently stopped vaccinating, as Uruguay had done earlier.
"I think the message is getting through but in terms of people vaccinating, we're starting from rather a low base, " he told BBC Radio Wales on Thursday.
First, they will focus on the effectiveness vaccinating badgers and then on the development of a cattle vaccine, its likely effectiveness and cost, and the timescale for availability.
Please do your part to help reassure parents that vaccinating their children is the best way to protect them from influenza disease, particularly during this busy travel season.
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The age group most affected by whooping cough, infants under two months old, is too young to be vaccinated, so prevention involves vaccinating people around them, she said.
If this were backed up by vaccinating a mere 10% of the wolves in the three connected meadows, the chance of extinction would drop to less than one in 1, 000.
Charities often use message texts as a way to raise money by allowing consumers to use their mobile device to text a donation for storm relief, vaccinating children or other causes.
But now, given their action, the finding of virus DNA in Rotateq and the inevitable hysteria of the vaccine activists, some parents will be confused enough to delay vaccinating their children.
Some doctors relate this recent rise in cases to the parents who have shied away from vaccinating children due to fears, albeit unfounded, that there is a connection between vaccines and autism.
But Dr Kirkham said that vaccinating children to prevent this was not thought to be a viable option, as the vaccine had also been linked to stroke in certain small groups of children.
Yet, like vaccinating children, much of the benefit of throttling accrues to others ie, those to whom the virus is not transmitted, even if those others have not taken the trouble to protect themselves.
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Until we have one, we have to do as much good as possible by vaccinating as many people as possible -- and in the meantime I'll be watching the universal vaccine trials very carefully.
If we stop vaccinating, these diseases will return.
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She has decided against vaccinating herself and her 12-year-old son both because she doesn't believe there is enough safety information about it, and because she doesn't think she and her son are in high-risk groups.
For example, instead of vaccinating everyone in a population against a disease, it may be just as effective to choose people at random and ask them to name their closest friends, then vaccinate those friends.
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