I had a similar thought a (few) year (s) ago and emailed a couple of people to sanity check the idea—all the experts I asked seemed to think this wouldn’t be an effective thing to do (which is why I didn’t do any more work on it). I think Alex’s points are true (mostly the cost part—I think you could get high enough intensity for it to be effective).
Wouldn’t lots of infections even for flu happen through e.g. faeces or such? If the birds are densely packed it might be hard to achieve much with UVC from the ceiling.
Also, about the idea of this being eventually transferable to humans, I wonder if birds have different sensitivity to it (due to being covered in feathers).
I had a similar thought a (few) year (s) ago and emailed a couple of people to sanity check the idea—all the experts I asked seemed to think this wouldn’t be an effective thing to do (which is why I didn’t do any more work on it). I think Alex’s points are true (mostly the cost part—I think you could get high enough intensity for it to be effective).
Wouldn’t lots of infections even for flu happen through e.g. faeces or such? If the birds are densely packed it might be hard to achieve much with UVC from the ceiling.
Also, about the idea of this being eventually transferable to humans, I wonder if birds have different sensitivity to it (due to being covered in feathers).