The Poultry Keeper

CP · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:44 am Post subject: News of another strain

Just read about another strain of avian flu.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4949026.stm

stephen · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:05 am Post subject:

Sheez.

Ben · Moderator Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 1346

Just seen it on the news. Alot closer to home this time.

ejc-free · Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 138

Hopefully it will be confirmed as H7 - but there is now a 10KM exclusion zone up around Dereham - according to the news.

I guess it's back to keeping the a close eye on the DEFRA things

Nisi · Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 164 Location: Yorkshire

Just when you think it's safe to come out of the henhouse.... Confused

mojo · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:30 am Post subject:

anyone want to swap chickens for goldfish........seriously absoloutly no news around here in papers ,tv or radio its gone stum

richard · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 258 Location: somerset

Hopefully it's the H7 and not the other one, a bit worrying though. I've noticed there's been no news from France lately. That can only be a good thing.

ejc-free · Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 138

I think the reason it's not the main news story of the day is that there's too much other stuff that they think is more salacious.

Defra just has a brief statment about testing for H7 and Hugh Pennington - a leading virologist seemed to think it could all be contained....

fenwoman · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:01 pm Post subject:

it's worrying. I'm only about 30 miles from it. Thank goodness I have most of mine under cover.

morgan · Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 17

I'm not sure we should be so thankful if it is H7. It was an H7 virus that cost 30million birds and one vet in the 2003 Netherlands outbreak.

Ben · Moderator Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 1346

CP · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject:

Lisa · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject:

AFAIK any H7 is bad news for chooks. But its not so bad (health wise) for people. Reading on Downsizer apparantly the vet that died in Holland had an underlying medical condition that made catching any sort of flu serious for him (you'd think he'd have sent a colleague, wouldn't you Confused

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A BBC news report earlier said the birds due to be culled had been imported from France. And that there were not huge numbers of dead birds, but many had suffered lack of appetite and reduced egg numbers.

Fingers crossed its not one of the highly pathogenic ones...

mojo · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject:

according to channel four news tonite NOT deadly strain....culling as a precauctionary measure(where have we heard that before).....only birds at risk said goverment vet officer

stephen · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 6:27 am Post subject:

According to the officials this morning on Farming Today, they are still running genetic sequencing and don't know which one it is, other than it is a H7 varient.