Avian Flu

Having just read the "Have Your Say" comments on the BBC website regarding Avian Flu, the Gorse Fox is amazed at the mix of sense and hysteria. Don't these people read his blog?

To help educate people, GF refers them to:

• Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), and
• Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) - Questions & answers
• The blog Avian Flu - What We Need to Know
• (Update): The blog World Health Organization - Avian influenza
  

  The quarantining of infected farms and destruction of infected or potentially exposed flocks are standard control measures aimed at preventing spread to other farms and eventual establishment of the virus in a country’s poultry population.
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  Most influenza experts also agree that the prompt culling of Hong Kong’s entire poultry population in 1997 probably averted a pandemic.

• (Update 2): Further information from America's Centers for Diseas Control and Prevention
  

[File under: Avian Flu]