Re: Zero avian 'flu risk from wild birds

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:17:45 +0200, "John Morgan" <shirley.yu@xxxxxxx>
wrote:


"Malcolm Kane" <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message
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In message <dypSsfFtcySEFwb7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Malcolm
<Malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

In article <444b201c$0$303$7a628cd7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Morgan
<shirley.yu@xxxxxxx> writes
The number of human cases of avian 'flu world-wide, attributable to wild
birds, is currently put at zero. <snip>

And, of course, that zero includes people who regularly handle wild
birds of all kinds. I wonder how many people there are worldwide who
shoot and trap birds to eat, not just handling them themselves, but
transporting them to market where they will be handled by those selling
them as well as by those buying them and plucking and gutting them - it
could run into hundreds of millions, and wildfowl will figure large in
their quarry. Yet, as you say, there's not a single case of a human
catching avian flu from a wild bird.

That really does put things into perspective, doesn't it?

Surely does.

Just the sort of risk I have been trying to get Angus to assess.
However it was obvious that he wouldn't as that would blow this
particular part of his crazy vendetta right out of the water.

It is interesting that the person you refer to has been unable to find any
riposte to this point, apart from the usual inanity we have come to expect.
With his past form - becoming an instant expert in ornithology, virology,
epidemiology, etc., etc. - I would have thought risk assessment would be a
comparative doddle.


Seems you're not an expert in comprehension :-))

I have never claimed to be an expert in anything.


Angus Macmillan
www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
www.killhunting.org
www.con-servation.org.uk
.

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