Re: Smuggling during quarantines

I have a flock of 60 laying hens, 80 meat birds and 24 turkeys on my farm
in Eastern Ontario. The prospect of my fowl getting sick and infecting me
and my good wife is a distinct possibility. There are wild bird in transit
this time of year and wild birds can be the vectors for these deadly
pathogens. Me and my birds are isolated as the nearest neighbour is 5 km
away. If health authorities in their infinite wisdom wanted to destroy my
birds, I would have no other option but to comply.

Farmer John

<TOBEROV@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9711926/site/newsweek/
>
> Oct. 24, 2005 issue - The remote Danube delta village of Ceamurlia de
> Jos in Romania is a busy place these days. Squads of men in surgical
> masks, gowns and booties are going door to door, gathering up chickens,
> ducks and other domestic fowl, then stuffing them into trash bins where
> they're gassed. The carcasses are burned, bagged and buried in pits.
> Meanwhile, villagers hide their chickens, trying to smuggle them out of
> town or simply devouring them before the authorities arrive. "We're
> eating all the chicken we can the last few days," ( ) said Gina
> Brainleanu as she stopped her horse-drawn cart on the road out of
> Ceamurlia. "Even now, people are trying to hide their chickens." Bird
> flu, in its most lethal form, has arrived in Europe. And as authorities
> in the Asian countries where it originated have discovered, stopping
> its further spread will not be easy.
>
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