Human Bird Flu

[CharlieHorse]

Excerpt from Yahoo News:

Sat Sep 1, 4:20 AM ET
 
HANOI (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed five human bird flu cases in Vietnam, four of them fatal, the U.N. agency said in a statement.

The four, including two women, died between June 21 and August 3 while a fifth person, a 29-year-old man, had recovered, it said.

All five cases, which had been confirmed earlier by Vietnam-based laboratory tests, were from the country's north. They brought the total human infections in the Southeast Asian country since 2003 to 100 with 46 fatalities.

Three of Vietnam's 64 provinces -- two in the southern Mekong delta and one in the north -- are still on the government's current bird flu watchlist, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday.

Bird flu has infected seven people in Vietnam so far this year and officials said the H5N1 virus could return in winter, starting in November.

The H5N1 virus remains mainly a virus of birds, but experts fear it could mutate into a form easily transmitted from person to person and sweep the world, killing millions.

Globally, the H5N1 virus has killed 199 people out of 327 known cases, according to a WHO tally. Hundreds of millions of birds have died or been slaughtered.

[Pheasant Hollow Farm]

Excerpt from Yahoo News:

Sat Sep 1, 4:20 AM ET
 
HANOI (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed five human bird flu cases in Vietnam, four of them fatal, the U.N. agency said in a statement.

The four, including two women, died between June 21 and August 3 while a fifth person, a 29-year-old man, had recovered, it said.

All five cases, which had been confirmed earlier by Vietnam-based laboratory tests, were from the country's north. They brought the total human infections in the Southeast Asian country since 2003 to 100 with 46 fatalities.

Three of Vietnam's 64 provinces -- two in the southern Mekong delta and one in the north -- are still on the government's current bird flu watchlist, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday.

Bird flu has infected seven people in Vietnam so far this year and officials said the H5N1 virus could return in winter, starting in November.

The H5N1 virus remains mainly a virus of birds, but experts fear it could mutate into a form easily transmitted from person to person and sweep the world, killing millions.

Globally, the H5N1 virus has killed 199 people out of 327 known cases, according to a WHO tally. Hundreds of millions of birds have died or been slaughtered.

Being that it may be, consider the locations. China, Vietnam, India, Turkey, what else would you expect. Where else in the world do you see a farmers market operation that has more fowl then produce? Look at the conditions that the birds are displayed in. These people live with there chickens and ducks or the chickens and ducks live with them.

Where did the AI (bird flu) virus come from, 3rd world countries, not industrialized nations. Just like AIDS , this started in a 3rd world country also. The rest of the world has to suffer for their ignorance.

The WHO should be policing the 3rd world countries for the out breaks of the AI Virus and also for the introduction of H5N1 virus which also started there, instead of trying to incite a pandemic situation.

It has been a least three years that they have been preaching the sky is falling, only to show that the H5N1 virus has still been contained in the 3rd world countries.

When the 3rd world countries clean up they bird housing problems then the H5N1 will disappear, until then we will continue to here from the WHO the sky is falling.

Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm

[WHITNEYPLU]

This is where it is so important for everyone to particapate in the NPIP and AI programs. When a outbreak does occur you can get fast help immediately and not try to keep diagnosing the problem until you lose alot of birds. Also burning of the dead carcasses and proper housekeeping come to play big time.

[Pheasant Hollow Farm]

This is where it is so important for everyone to particapate in the NPIP and AI programs. When a outbreak does occur you can get fast help immediately and not try to keep diagnosing the problem until you lose alot of birds. Also burning of the dead carcasses and proper housekeeping come to play big time.

Your preaching to the choir. Any AI out breaks that I know of has come from the chicken farms around here, or from the bordering states. That is another reason why you don't keep migratory birds penned in the same location as game birds.

Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm