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" Tonight we will start to kill all the birds." |
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Posted: April 05 2006 at 12:20pm |
April 06, 2006 The Daily Telegraph Germany said it would start culling to prevent the spread of bird flu after finding it on a farm which houses more than 16,000 turkey, geese and chickens. Follow up tests were being carried out at a national veterinary disease agency to confirm it was the highly pathogenic form of the virus. "This is the first case of H5N1 in domestic fowl (in Germany) and this makes it somewhat explosive," Saxony's Minister of Social Affairs, Helma Orosz, told a news conference. "Tonight we will start to kill all the birds." http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,18727687-5001028,00.html |
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Rick,
I wonder if all this culling of millions of birds really has had a slowing effect on the spread ??
I read today that an infected cat does a great deal to further the virus' ability to mutate to an H2H state since the cat is a mammal.
Also today, that dried airborn chicken poop can infect someone miles away and virus in cattle flops can stay alive for 3 months !
Sorry, I don't have links.
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Good point. Which may explain additional stories recently expressing concerns about domestic cats and to a lesser extent dogs. |
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