7/19/2004: Avian Flu in Vietnam

Undertoad · 07-19-2004, 11:58 AM

IotD always picks up food-related concerns for some reason, but when I saved off the above shot, I thought it was interesting only because of how the guy is transporting his livestock to market. The next day I found out what happens when he gets there:

The ducks get a snootful of disinfectant, that's what.

What this treatment actually is, and why it's supposed to be effective against a flu, I have no idea. But the pictures are interesting, no?

jaguar · 07-19-2004, 12:04 PM

By my experience of vietnamese health standards, I'd say it's leftover DDT.

pegusitas · 07-19-2004, 12:16 PM

Affflaaaa aaaccck aaaack aaack!

CzinZumerzet · 07-19-2004, 12:16 PM

...and I think the 'guy' is a woman.

YellowBolt · 07-19-2004, 01:25 PM

...yeah. See, she's got breasties.

Elspode · 07-19-2004, 01:33 PM

Perhaps it is a guy, but he's smuggling a couple of choice ducks in his tunic to avoid the disinfecting process, hoping to bring higher prices in the exotic and dangerous food markets of Southeast Asia?

Cyber Wolf · 07-19-2004, 02:17 PM

As far as already-infected ducks go, dousing the ducks like that to disinfect from avian flu is kinda like taking an antibiotic shower for a lung infection...isn't it? Or then again...I'd imagine quite a bit gets into the duck from inhaling mist or getting it pressure-sprayed up the snout.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-19-2004, 05:24 PM

I don't think they're concerned with what's inside, as they aren't trying to cure the duck, they're going to kill it. What concerns them is what's on the outside that might be passed along to other critters or humans.

07-19-2004, 11:58 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	7/19/2004: Avian Flu in Vietnam IotD always picks up food-related concerns for some reason, but when I saved off the above shot, I thought it was interesting only because of how the guy is transporting his livestock to market. The next day I found out what happens when he gets there: The ducks get a snootful of disinfectant, that's what. What this treatment actually is, and why it's supposed to be effective against a flu, I have no idea. But the pictures are interesting, no?

07-19-2004, 12:04 PM	#2
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	By my experience of vietnamese health standards, I'd say it's leftover DDT. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

07-19-2004, 12:16 PM	#4
CzinZumerzet .....short for Caz Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The West Coast of England Posts: 358	...and I think the 'guy' is a woman. __________________ ..down by the zea zippin' zider

07-19-2004, 01:33 PM	#6
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Perhaps it is a guy, but he's smuggling a couple of choice ducks in his tunic to avoid the disinfecting process, hoping to bring higher prices in the exotic and dangerous food markets of Southeast Asia? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

07-19-2004, 02:17 PM	#7
Cyber Wolf As stable as a ring of PU-239 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: On a huge rock covered in water, highly advanced moss and 7 billion parasites Posts: 1,264	As far as already-infected ducks go, dousing the ducks like that to disinfect from avian flu is kinda like taking an antibiotic shower for a lung infection...isn't it? Or then again...I'd imagine quite a bit gets into the duck from inhaling mist or getting it pressure-sprayed up the snout. __________________ "I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then getting' upset 'cos they act like people." ~Adam Young, Good Omens "I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out." ~Adam Young, Good Omens

07-19-2004, 12:16 PM	#3
pegusitas Writer of Writings Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 14	Affflaaaa aaaccck aaaack aaack!

07-19-2004, 01:25 PM	#5
YellowBolt I lurk with the best of them Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: not close to philadelphia. :( well, not THAT close. Posts: 146	...yeah. See, she's got breasties.

07-19-2004, 05:24 PM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I don't think they're concerned with what's inside, as they aren't trying to cure the duck, they're going to kill it. What concerns them is what's on the outside that might be passed along to other critters or humans. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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