Re: Bird Flu Controls


"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 was not
I snipped to the part I had time to answer


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.

That is only your opinion. You keep telling us everyone else knows better
but yet that is not in evidence anywhere.


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

Yes as moving infected birds will create an much more serious economic
problem than they already had
This is not a disease transmitted in the air like FMD
It will be in the industries best interests to contain any infection they
get to as few sites as possible
They will not want to move one batch of infected growers onto a site where
other batches of growers are already out of the danger zone and nearly ready
to go. These sites have lots of units at different stages of growing.


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regards
Jill Bowis

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http://www.kintaline.co.uk


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