More than 1,000 poultry found dead in Macedonia

AP, AFP ^ | October17,2005 | AP, AFP

[fishhound]

More than 1,000 poultry were found dead in Macedonia at the weekend, but experts played down fears that the deadly strain of bird flu had spread from nearby Turkey and Romania.

The chickens and turkeys were discovered in the villages of Germijan and Mogila, some 200 kilometres (120 miles) southwest of Skopje, the capital of the former Yugoslav republic, the Dnevnik newspaper reported.

[fishhound]

In seeing all of these stories about bird die-offs and culls something occurs to me. If the Flu is going to be like the Flu from 1918. Should not there be a record of such die-offs prior to the 1918 Flu epidemic. I should think there would be some comment somewhere. On a lighter note I smell a gov't bailout of Tyson.

[Red Badger]

Mass fricacide.....I suspect fowl play......

[Diddle E. Squat]

Lots of dead poultry found here, too:

[FerdieMurphy]

It's still not too late to scoop up all the chicken corpses and ahip them off to KFC.

[theDentist]

Sounds like an attack of the PETAphile Inquisition!

[misterrob]

were signs of choking visible?

[TravisBickle]

Thanks for keeping us abreast of this story.

[End Times Sentinel]

That's really sad.  At least they won't have to worry about getting that bird flu.

 

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[Diddle E. Squat]

OMG! All dead here, too!

[hispanarepublicana]

Does this include the Macedonian Dodo Bird?

[LexBaird]

Sounds like the work of an evil super genius!

[Right Wing Professor]

If the Flu is going to be like the Flu from 1918. Should not there be a record of such die-offs prior to the 1918 Flu epidemic. I should think there would be some comment somewhere.

There weren't large scale poultry farms in 1918. Large numbers of families raised a few chickens apiece. Doubtful, with the war going on, that anyone would have noticed local die-offs.

[redgolum]

Ping

[C-Note]

Man, I spit my coke all over my monitor.


Oh, the humanity.

C

[Alouette]

Should not there be a record of such die-offs prior to the 1918 Flu epidemic.

I think there was more concern about other major die-off prior to the 1918 influenza pandemic, namely World War I.

[jw777]

You are a Beakon of truth.

[blam]

I just got back from the store, I bought 40 pounds of chicken before all the panic buying or they go extinct.

Anyway, my neighbor and I both found dead Blue Jays in our yards Saturday...my guess, West Nile Virus. (the same thing that killed Alexander The Great.)

[loreldan]

6 of our chickens were killed last month - it was coyotes.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Interesting, I hadn't heard about the Alexander the Great/West Nile theory. The disease has been around that long? We've had occassional reports of a few dead birds here in Dallas, but not the pesky woodpecker plugging away right now 30' from where I type.

Here's hoping you don't have to run back for a couple of week's worth of ice to keep that chicken cold after Wilma...

[SIDENET]

I just found a dead sparrow outside.

(Runs to underground bunker in backyard stocked with supplies...)