Re: Zero avian 'flu risk from wild birds


"Malcolm" <Malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
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In article <44514f55$0$303$7a628cd7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Morgan
<shirley.yu@xxxxxxx> writes
"BAC" <casswalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
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My intended meaning was that a reliance on the belief that a bird was
'wild'
would render a person 100% safe from infection from it was equivalent
to
reliance on the belief that wearing a banana skin would protect a
person
from contracting malaria.

Interesting. My intention was to ridicule the notion that efficient
protection could be deployed (e.g. snake oil remedy) when in fact it is
the
risk equating to zero - or so close to zero that it can be discounted -
which protects the individual. You may have seen a proposal that we can
protect ourselves against bird 'flu by not going to reserves for wild
birds,
despite the fact that wild birds are everywhere around us.

And despite the facts, which the proponent of the idea of not going to
reserves dishonestly tried to ignore, that at reserves people and birds
are separated while in town parks people feed wild birds by hand and
children play on paths and grass on which the birds have been walking
and crapping.

Indeed. I've already mentioned the St James Park wintering wildfowl as a
place where, unlike a reserve, the public actually mingle with the wild
birds. If there was thought to be any risk whatsoever to the public, these
would be the first places to be closed down.

There are probably more such parks up and down the land than there are
reserves holding migrant wildfowl. Yet so far no-one has suggested that the
public should be warned away from these places. Such scare-mongering would
probably be ridiculed anyway.


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