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Post by nancyd on Mar 6, 2006 20:09:16 GMT -7
Has anyone heard that there are a couple of cats in Europe, (Austria I think), that have been diagnosed with bird flu ?? I wonder whether they really "caught " it or did they get it because they ate a bird that was contaminated. I think I saw the article on the Netscape home page but when I had time to go back to read it the article was gone.
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Post by Jane on Mar 7, 2006 1:13:12 GMT -7
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linzie
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Post by linzie on Mar 7, 2006 4:40:01 GMT -7
'Stories' like this do worry me, although we presently dont have AI in the uk (yet). We live in an urban area next door to a nutty neighbour from hell (wont bore you with the details) whom has around 50+ chickens / cockerels / ducks & Geese whom continually fly over into our garden, no matter what we do with the fencing & trellice work, they peck plants and poop everywhere (usual poultry stuff). Obviously we are concerened for our own health, (eg we read that AI can be contracted from bird poop, saliva etc, so if we went outside to go some gardening etc, although not massive, we would be exposed to the poop in our garden, and could potentially, i guess, carry the virus back in the house with us. We havent been able to find much information on 'just' how infectious AI is - we know it takes huge and prolonged exposure for humans to catch it, but theres not so much about how quickly / easy birds pass it on to oneanother),but our AGs too, as ive read somewhere that should our NFH poultry catch AI, that any bird living within the surrounding area will more than likely be culled through no fault of our own.  NFH also (wrongly) burns his poultrys' poop in order to dispose of it, we would guess that the heat from the flames would kill the virus, but again, we cant help but being concerned and worried. I guess most of our worry comes from lack of knowledge  |
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