Ducks Deluxe! - Event Date: June 26 2006

I don't suppose I am the only one who sees what is wrong with this picture?

Ducks Deluxe!
Jun 26th - 11:22am
Those Terrible TICKS!

Terrified of ticks? Get yourself some dedicated tick EATERS! We're talking fowl, like chickens, ducks, and especially guinea hens; studies have found that they consume huge numbers of the little bloodsuckers when they're allowed to run loose on your property (ticks may be the guinea hens' favorite food!).

http://www.wtopnews.com/?sid=831998&nid=47 We're talking fowl, like chickens, ducks, and especially guinea hens; studies have found that they consume huge numbers of the little bloodsuckers when they're allowed to run loose on your property

    The birds flu to my neighbors back yard!

              

Hey, those are cute.

I am pretty much persuaded that H5N1 HP is in America.  We are just not being told about it. 

H5N1 LP has been in America for years and years.

Remember in China people who handled infected raw pork were dying within hours and days of contact if they had the littlest microscopic cut on their hands. 

It is not safe to handle Sichuan Sheet (H5N1 HP) contaminated raw meat. In fact, you risk death each and every time you touch a raw egg or eviscerate a chicken.

In China they mandated that all butchers use plastic/vinyl gloves in the handling of raw meat, and they cut way down the cases of such deaths.  Butchers are still dying, but the death rate is not pandemic, and the press has been ordered to ignore the story.  To control panic, the Communists invented a cover story that the cause of the quick deaths was Streptococcus Suis (a fairly benigh bacteria that lives normally on pig genetalia and snouts.)  Believe me, that is not what was killing the butchers.

The Communist Chinese do believe in survival of the fittest. If the butchers are stupid enough to handle raw meat with exposed skin, then they have decided to remove themselves from the gene pool. In a country with a tremendous overpopulation problem, that is considered acceptable.

JoeNeubarth wrote: I am pretty much persuaded that H5N1 HP is in America.  We are just not being told about it.  H5N1 LP has been in America for years and years. Remember in China people who handled infected raw pork were dying within hours and days of contact if they had the littlest microscopic cut on their hands.  It is not safe to handle Sichuan Sheet (H5N1 HP) contaminated raw meat. In fact, you risk death each and every time you touch a raw egg or eviscerate a chicken. In China they mandated that all butchers use plastic/vinyl gloves in the handling of raw meat, and they cut way down the cases of such deaths.  Butchers are still dying, but the death rate is not pandemic, and the press has been ordered to ignore the story.  To control panic, the Communists invented a cover story that the cause of the quick deaths was Streptococcus Suis (a fairly benigh bacteria that lives normally on pig genetalia and snouts.)  Believe me, that is not what was killing the butchers. The Communist Chinese do believe in survival of the fittest. If the butchers are stupid enough to handle raw meat with exposed skin, then they have decided to remove themselves from the gene pool. In a country with a tremendous overpopulation problem, that is considered acceptable.

Curiosity, Joe.  I don't doubt that any of the virus is already here in the U.S., but when you say that H5N1LP has been here for years, I am curious where it has been or where it is...mainly so I can stay away from it.  Is it in the raw meat that we are consuming (and handling beforehand)?  Thanks in advance!