WHO: Bird Flu crisis very serious

    WHO: Bird Flu crisis very serious

1/17/2008 12:19:40 PM




A WB government designated official culls private poultry stock in Margram, Bibhum district

The World Health Organisation or WHO has warned that India has big trouble on its hands - hinting that the Bird Flu outbreak could perhaps be one of the worst ever, more severe than previously encountered.

A WHO statement released today (January 17) reads:

"More serious risk factors are associated with this current outbreak than previously encountered, including that the affected areas are more widespread and because of proximity to extended border areas."


Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar meanwhile has said today that an alert has been sounded not only in West Bengal but across the country.
"We have taken strong measures to counter the Bird Flu threat from the Bangladesh border. We have passed on all information to the West Bengal government and sounded a countrywide alert. International guidelines are being followed in the culling operations in West Bengal," said Pawar.

The statement comes after the Centre, facing a crisis and coming under harsh criticism for its handling of the outbreak, began a blame game yesterday alleging that the state government had pressed the alarm button at least a week after it received information about abnormal poultry deaths in the state.

TIMES NOW has been told that the WB government sat quiet for a week in willfull controvention of rules which state that the Centre must be informed about unexplained and largescale bird deaths within 24 hours.

The West Bengal government reported the fact that chickens were dying in Birbhum and South Dinajpur districts of the state on January 11, whereas the first report of the deaths came to state health officials on January 4. Timeyl action could thus not be taken to limit the outbreak which may have already spread to neighbouring districts like Hoogly, South 24 Paraganas and Murshidabad.

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Lori,  doesn't a nice chicken dinner sound good right now...? 

 

Chicken out of menu for air passengers
Friday January 18 2008 00:00 IST
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KOLKATA: There will be no chicken items in the menu for passengers in planes leaving NSCBI airport here from Thursday in view of outbreak of Bird flu in the state.

All airlines operating from here have been instructed by their headquarters to replace chicken by mutton in the menu, airlines sources said.

Any of it left over for tonight? Always taste's better the next day. What time is dinner?

I hope you cooked it to 160 degrees as the government advises

For a Southern boy like myself, I've got to have my fried yard bird (er...I mean fried chicken).  Life just isn't much worth living without a good meal of fried chicken, with mashed potatoes, skillet gravy, corn-on-the-cob, and fluffy rolls.  Oh yes, and sweetea.

The lighter side of chicken talk - so we all, the heavy posters are getting  a little battle fatigued on AFT.

We are definitely the veterans having survived waves of agendas and misinformation. I feel like i know certain users while I know none who post here personally.

So Coyote, things are not well in Birdland. And it is time to crank up the engines and find out - we posted 10 countries that are close to endogenous and infected yesterday.

The toes that have been stepped on on issues which we will not even go there have gotten pretty fierce. The recent and upcoming warzone on ACLU versus quarantining of entire cities - this is news by the way.

http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/federal/index.html

Read this stuff VERY CAREFULLY. People read what I put up but the sound of silence is deafening.  First, Bird Flu is getting worse. We have more clusters, nastier strains, h2h (although rare so far) and now we find we can pick it up off of surfaces. It lives outside the body for X time and you don't need to touch a sick bird. This like proof or near certainty of H2H in Nam is no small thing. As the stock market in India shakes, more Swans are positive in U.K.(I told you we had many more Swans infected than the two who came back negative and that U.K. has a bird flu problem and will. We have mega confirmations in some countries, as in sample destroyed or ruined and positives become negatives - Bird Flu is spreading and it is mutating.

Crisis? Yep, afraid so. Media report reflection of the problem - lot of unhappy chickens in Russia and India right now - and denial is getting very much as spin, really pro. it has become a science.

Can you contain a city with quarantine? Will we try? This is a knock down drag out fight argument.

There is a plan. Last version Homeland in November. I posted it. ACLU has read it and is way stressed.

Read it. And keep reading here and wherever you can find the real deal. I think Albert keeps the throttle here pretty tight. But often I have really thought about this and we cannot AFFORD to go off on these tangents of all kinds of data that cannot stand up under hard core checking.

Nuff said... keep reading. There's lots to put up. It is not over.

Medclinician

I have no problem replacing chicken with pork. "Pork, the other white meat!"