Bird Flu Update.

Goodlife1970 · Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:13 pm

Flippin nuisance they are,we must get at least one a day despite being on the Telephone Peference List. Why do they always call when you are cooking dinner?

hedgewizard · Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:46 pm

We've stopped getting those but I have no idea why. The TPS takes up to nine months to work fully, though, so maybe that did it.

Goodlife1970 · Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:34 pm

Is it my imagination or does all seem to have gone quiet on the bird flu news this week?

hedgewizard · Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:54 pm

The next piece of news for the UK will be to say that it's arrived. I'd sooner it stays quiet!

Goodlife1970 · Sun Mar 12, 2006 5:03 pm

Pessimist! Bet youre a barrel of laughs! Well they say no news is good news......

hedgewizard · Sun Mar 12, 2006 5:12 pm

Not just a pessimist, dear... also a pedant and a perfectionist!

ina · Post: # 14031Post **ina** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 5:37 pm

Ooops, sounds a bit like me.... Terrifying to think there's somebody else like that out there!

I've just checked various websites - but there really doesn't seem to be anything new on the flu subject. Maybe all the dead birds are covered with snow and they are just not finding them right now...

digger · Post: # 14186Post **digger** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:34 am

Latest news from Sweden is that isolated cases of H5N continue to be found. So far, no cases of H5N1 have been found (the variation that can infect people). The most troubling find a few days ago was H5N being found in a dead buzzard. Presumably the bird got infected by feeding on infected carrion. Does anybody know how long the virus can survice after the host dies?

hedgewizard · Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:46 am

Depends on the virus and the conditions... they're optimized for living hosts but out in the open they survive for several hours. I would think that in dead tissue the falling pH would inactivate them pretty quickly, but I'd guess that a hungry buzzard would be quicker!

Think... guess... nobody really knows, I bet.

The Chili Monster · Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:09 pm

Confirmed case in domestic flock reported in Germany:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/05042006/325/g ... -fowl.html

ina · Post: # 16730Post **ina** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:57 pm

Blast! Well, I've not heard any more about France, so they seem to have managed to contain the disease; let's hope the same for Germany.

Shirley · Post: # 16743Post **Shirley** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:35 pm

bbc news http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4881526.stm

fife is not that far... but it's only bird flu.. not necessarily the h5N1 strain. Will be watching closely!

Chickenlady · Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:16 pm

Yes, I have just heard this.

darlo70 · Post: # 16775Post **darlo70** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:24 pm

Just been on radio 5 that an unnamed reporter has heard that an announcement will be made in the hour to confirm that the swan was indeed the H5N1 strain. Looks like a lock up order is to follow

ina · Post: # 16780Post **ina** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:09 pm

Yes, it's confirmed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4882946.stm

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Bird Flu Update.

BBC reporter has heard it is H5N1