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03-14-2006, 06:05 PM | #16 | |
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Most UK commercial poultry farmers have too much to lose to ignore government instructions and recommendations - in fact those that normally would have to protect their organic and free range status by allowing their birds to roam have already been given dispensation to keep them under cover without affecting this status - a safeguard to address this otherwise high-risk categorisation requirement.
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03-14-2006, 08:23 PM | #17 | |
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03-15-2006, 05:41 AM | #18 |
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Between this and the recent mad cow sighting, I can only ask:
How's being vegetarian sound? |
03-15-2006, 05:29 PM | #19 |
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A bear and a chicken were arguing in the woods,
Bear "I'm the toughest in the woods I growl and the whole woods shits themselves in fear". Chicken " That's fuck all,I sneeze and the whole country shits themselves in fear". |
03-15-2006, 08:01 PM | #20 | |
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03-15-2006, 09:30 PM | #21 |
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The Tower of London Ravens have been moved indoors.
Apparently, if they die the sun sets on the British Empire or something.
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03-16-2006, 12:22 AM | #22 | |
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03-16-2006, 10:37 AM | #23 |
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Anyone who is worried about bird flu and who has a domestic cat that they allow to roam out of doors might want to take a lesson from the Tower of London's ravens and, also, confine kitty indoors. Bird flu has already been discovered in the cat-like civet and could easily spread among populations of domestic cats both here and in Europe. I wanted to make my little (well, now Big!) Siamese an indoor cat, but he's quite the sly escape artist and sometimes eludes me to go out on adventures. Yesterday he made an escape and returned with a single downy bird feather stuck to the corner of his mouth. The little rapscallion!
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03-16-2006, 02:35 PM | #24 |
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If he starts sneezing, run.
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03-16-2006, 03:57 PM | #25 |
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That could just be feathers up his nose.
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03-16-2006, 07:26 PM | #26 | |
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03-16-2006, 07:26 PM | #27 |
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I'm pretty close to ordering 4 N100 filter masks just in case. Otherwise, if there were an outbreak, it could be weeks before anything beyond those cheap disposables would be available.
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03-16-2006, 07:48 PM | #28 | |
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03-17-2006, 07:03 AM | #29 |
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It's called H5N1
It is a good thing that governments are taking care to prepare for a possible threat. But then we have to put that threat into perspective. Previous versions of the disease that did pass into to humans were the types H1, H2, and H3. They caused humans to get sick in 1918, 1957, and 1968. What was the solution? Better health practices. Wash hands. Wash down things that people touch. When the epidemic was so catastrophic, people also did not practice these essential cleaning practices.
So where will the disease be a greater problem. Obviously among those who daily work with birds. But also where good health practices are not exercised. The H5 type could be a problem. But moreso, it will show us where we are not down our jobs to stay clean and healthy. That this virus would be any more disastrous than others is mostly about getting people to practice normal precautions. Last edited by tw; 03-17-2006 at 07:07 AM. |
03-17-2006, 07:36 AM | #30 | |
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An interesting tidbit I gathered from the PBS documentary on the 1918 flu: the reason the most affected people were healthy, young adults was not because the virus somehow targeted these people, but because it was most likely that the elderly had developed a resistance to that strain of flu thanks to an outbreak of a similar flu several decades earlier. |
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