bird flue in turkey

[Talon]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000100&sid=akfDz56wVHFI&refer=germany

i think ppl should be more conscerned.about the cost of human life more than birds
if we ever have a out break over here.
its scarey especaily being a parent.birds can allways be replaced.
at some point.

[Tarqers]

i quite agree not least all the people that work in zoo,s etc,my wife works at birdworld or no birdworld as they call it these days...tarqs

[Saker-Clive]

I was told over the weekend, that the kids that tragically died in Turkey were playing catch with infected dead chickens!!!!!! they also ate not properly cooked infected chickens............................as tragic as it is, the parents shouldn't have allowed the youngsters to play with the corpses etc. (whether infected or not!!! but I guess that is a cultural thing!!!!!!)

[Tarqers]

oh yea boot the dead chicken is big in turkey:-P

[Talon]

whether they was playing with the dead chicken or not .the facts is the virus
was still pressent there and probably would of spread one way or another.
if not direct to humans but to other birds and so on.

[Saker-Clive]

You'd be suprised what 'entertainment' some of the not so wealthy get up to!!

I have a couple of freinds that are Turkish but they live in Istanbul, I keep in touch with, and some of the stories they sometimes come out with regarding 'their lower classes'..................................:wink:

[Minty]

If it hits here which it will do then poultry farmers workers etc are in the front line.
However if it mutates that's the problem, and so far it has not.

Now go out and fly your bird!

[Kevin Massey]

some guy on sky tv news ... was saying about the interaction between chickens,other livestock and man in such countries are a mayjor factors,
they have livestock running about in there daily lives...in there streets yards houses etc all the time.

what you look at the places with the mayjor outbreaks this seems relevent

[Saker-Clive]

Agreed JB, a lot of the Asian countries, virtually 'live' with their chickens etc. so these are the people who are more than likely to contract these diseases etc.