Re: Bird flu + preparedness + Anthrax

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:28:06 +0000, enigma wrote:

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but it appears that it might NOT be pointless if you aren't
trying to sell your chickens for meat or eggs, IOW it might save a rare
breed... or it might just give the gub'mint a lead to find & kill one's
chickens. damned if you do & damned if you don't :p

The good news is that the vaccine is being tried somewhere else, so we can
see if it works or not. Which may be moot anyway because I haven't read
anything about APHIS considering it. I really don't see the USDA going
around killing small flocks of chickens. Chickens aren't like cattle,
where a calf born one place may be raised another, and slaughtered in yet
another. The only place I think of where chickens co-mingle is something
like a farm show or county fair.

Also, the virus kills very quickly. The farmer in France had his birds
confined, but he thinks he may have exposed them to the virus through some
straw he brought in from outside for bedding. He put it down one day
- birds were fine - and the next morning there were a lot of dead birds.
.

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