Re: Britain's Bird Flu tests

"Pat Gardiner"

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This will increase criticism of Dr Reynolds and ministers who repeatedly
refused to order Britain's poultry indoors to minimise risk of infection.

So they REALLY want all poultry indoors at all times
I thought this country wanted all our birds OUT doors
This infection is nothing to do with the H5N1 infection
It is an LP strain that can appear at any time around the globe and has done
periodically over the past 10 years, just like all the other LP versions
Are they SERIOUSLY supporting the removal of all Free Range poultry keeping
in the UK??
Yet another stupid journalist not understand one word in 3 that he has read
or written


The flu is a low-pathogenicity form of the H7N3 virus - not the virulent
H5N1 - but experts say that it, too, could mutate to become deadly. The
Government's defences - erected against H5N1 - should have caught this
other strain if they had been effective.

They did catch it ! - thats the whole point!
What on earth is this twit on?
He comes out of the same idiotic, ill educated mould as JM
Does he think that there is a big microscopic screen up around the UK
coastline
Or that every bird in the UK is going to be tested daily for 144 types of AI

Dr Reynolds admits the surveillance - testing wild birds for flu - failed
to find any carrying the virus affecting the farms, despite the greatest
bird flu monitoring exercise ever carried out in Britain.

There have been more birds sampled - but its still only a sample around the
country
There are thousands of birds coming into the country daily at the moment
Is this journalist suggesting that each and every swift and swallow must be
issued with a passport and give a blood test before passing into UK
airspace?


The experts say samples must immediately be put in saline or preservative;
the British tests fail to do this.

There is a great deal of misinformation going around about this. There are
serious conflicts of reporting about methods. The people who are throwing
the accusations are all people who have actually seen the testing done in
the UK as far as I have read so far but Malcolm will have much better
information about this

I would be VERY interested to know more about it from someone who really
knows - if you are about?

The Department for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs says its tests are valid, but plans a trial to see if the
methods used abroad are better.

Good.

Britain's defences against bird flu were last night exposed as
ineffective, as chickens in two more farms in Norfolk were found to have a
strain of the disease.

Complete tosh - the fact that such a mild strain which has barely any
effects on most of the chickens it infects is being picked up shows that the
defences are being EFFECTIVE


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Jill Bowis

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Relevant Pages

  • WHO Epi Report
    ... Avian influenza - new areas with infection in birds - update 34 ... In Romania, investigations of recent poultry deaths have, to date, ... laboratories for comparison with human H5N1 isolates from Asia. ...
    (sci.med.nursing)
  • Reservoir competence of native North American birds for the lyme
    ... environment suggests that they might contribute infected ticks to lawns ... *Reservoir competence of native North American birds for the lyme ... infecting 16.1% of larvae ... Lower infection rates in larvae applied to ...
    (sci.med.diseases.lyme)
  • Re: Would you risk your childs life?
    ... you would quickly realise that reserves are designed to keep the birds ... more risk than anywhere else is just plain silly. ... Not if they're kept inside and away from those carrying the infection. ...
    (uk.environment.conservation)
  • Re: Uh oh
    ... A highly infectious new strain of the MRSA superbug that spreads through ... young and fit people who contract the infection die. ... circulates outside hospitals and can easily be misdiagnosed by GPs ...
    (soc.retirement)
  • International health experts express concern over unprecedented bird flu spread
    ... International health experts express concern over unprecedented bird ... Fourteen countries - from India to Nigeria and Egypt - have reported ... could potentially come into contact with birds infected with H5N1, ... But Indonesia is a concern because of the high infection rates among ...
    (soc.culture.cambodia)