Re: Bird Flu Controls


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"Pat Gardiner" <patgardiner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Europe agreed that ready-to-lay pullets, turkeys for fattening and other
poultry or farmed feathered game could be moved out of surveillance zones
15 days after an outbreak. A vet would have to give approval and the
birds would need to be kept under surveillance, away from other poultry.

While on the face of it this sounds daft, in practical terms it may not be
so bad as long as it means 15 days after the last signs of any virus
activity. This does not hide so easily in these species.

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Don't snip so agreessively as to deliberately obsure an important issue.

I have absolutely no problem with somebody, neutral, half sensible and
appropriately qualified and appointed, making difficult decisions during an
epidemic. The British system was never to rely on a rule book in an
emergency - and it works.

But I do not and will not accept that the SVS can licence vets to make
decisions like this on their behalf.

Can you imagine Bernard Matthews' (merely as an example) regular vet daring
to refuse permission for them to move birds if they want to?

It is a ridiculous situation that would be completely unacceptable in any
other walk of life, let alone in an industry which has become a byword for
corruption and looting of taxpayer's money

This has been engineered by the management of State Veterinary Service to
try to keep themselves out of the firing line.

Like all bullies and incompetents, they are actually very afraid of being
seen to make decisions. Goiven their record of presiding over disasters, it
is not too surprising.

They now pass anything tricky up the line or down the line. I wonder what we
are paying them for.

It should be a thoroughly purged SVS that make the decisions, not regular
vets with conflicts of interest.

If the RCVS put up with having the responsibility dumped on their non SVS
members, they are even more in need of root and branch reform that I
thought.

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Pat Gardiner
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Jill Bowis

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