Re: China: H5N1 infected poultry -- symptomless


"Peter Duncanson" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For your information.

Thanks Peter

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Up to one percent of apparently healthy
chickens, ducks and geese in wet markets in southern China are
infected with the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus, researchers in
Hong Kong and China have found.

...this is the first time researchers have found and documented
on such a large scale infected chickens which do not show signs
of the disease. Chickens usually die within 24 hours of being
infected.

"This means out of every 100 birds in wet markets, one is positive
and infected with the virus. They look healthy but they can infect
others and they can kill people," Guan told Reuters on Friday.
<snipped for brevity >

But this is not news - mortality has always been put at around 90%
If anything one should have expected the figure in chickens and similarly
affected birds to have been higher!!!!


Experts began questioning this week if apparently healthy but
infected birds might be the culprit when a Chinese man died

But this has been stated over and again in the past 5 years !!!
The fact that birds are sold live to ordinary people who will keep them in
their back yard for a day or two until they are ready to eat them
At which time they are killed and eaten in the household.
Whilst many do keep birds on a more long term basis very many more keep them
alive instead of refrigerated [especially if they don't have a fridge !!!!]


...chickens, China pledged last year to vaccinate all of them. ...
experts say that is impossible because millions of China's backyard
chickens roam free.

Well that is not rocket science either

Its a shame the scientists are being so shallow as well as the media

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