Thanks for the interesting article.
Yes this H5N1 virus is killing million of birds worldwide and causing the slaughter of hundred of millions of uninfected and infected birds to prevent their spread.
Live chickens use in rituals would not be spared either as mention in your report.
The problem you see is that the Spanish Flu which killed millions of people during a tragic year period in 1918-19 originated and mutated from the bird flu. It is called H1N1.
So to protect the supreme human species, the bird species must be sacrified, and Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest is most certainly practiced here by homo sapiens.