Tracking the next pandemic: Avian Flu Talk |
80,000 birds infected in Africa |
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Posted: February 09 2006 at 5:20am |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060209/ts_afp/healthflunigeria _060209104531 Identified earlier this week as "fowl cholera", the disease was spreading rapidly through farms in The disease in "We have 20,000 new infections reported today, bringing the figure for infected birds to 80,000. What worsens the situation is the movement of infected poultry, in a frantic effort to minimise losses," he said. Haruna and several market stall holders told AFP that once chickens are infected farmers are killing them and rapidly dumping them on the market in an effort to beat any future quarantine and make a quick profit. "The announcement by the federal government of bird flu at Sambawa Farm shocked us, but we are just waiting for confirmation from the veterinary institute in Vom for our birds," Haruna said. Prices of chickens in International experts from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation were expected to arrive in
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I have to shake my head..if they knew this might happen..why were they not on top of it...
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muskrat quote :{I have to shake my head..if they knew this might happen..why were they not on top of it... } It is because they were on top of each other. |
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Speculation is the only tool we have with a threat that can circle the globe in 30 days. Test results&news is slow.Factor in human conditions,politics, money&bingo!The truth!Facts come after the fact.
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I read yesterday (somewhere) that it is estimated it's been in Africa for over a month and chicken farmers didn't want to loose their profits from a scare. One farm had lost 2500 of it 9500 chickens to death. This was on a cage contained farm. So the 'normalcy' of this infecting back-yard chickens changed. If you read and put this all together, this isn't a typcial bird virus, it's even crossed over into big cats (tigers) and killed them. I breifly saw the Africa announcement posted on Yahoo, then it was gone. This is why nobody is prepping, the news over church fires and Muslim offenses is taking priority. I'm sure they don't want people to panic, but leaving them 100% unprepared is wrong. |
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Check the WHO story on the CNN site!
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I'm not a ribbering Jidiot!
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Link? The main page and health section has nothing. CNN does that ALOT. I always bookmark AF stories - they disappear fast from CNN.
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