This always worked for me:
Posted on 10/31/2005 11:31:00 AM PST by HAL9000
OTTAWA - the H5 virus of the aviary influenza was discovered on wild birds in Canada, announced Monday the Canadian authorities, by specifying that there was no threat for human health.The Canadian authorities indicated, in an official statement, that a "national survey carrying into migrating wild ducks revealed the presence" of aviary influenza.
The investigation made it possible to discover 28 positive cases in Quebec and 5 in Manitoba, "ascribable to the H5 sub-type", specifies the official statement.
"the Canadian agency of public health determined that no information contained in these results could let believe that it would act of a new threat for human health", it adds.
"the detection of H5 stocks of the virus of the influenza (influenza) aviary is not unexpected. The virus is usually found in the populations of migratory birds of the whole world ", continues the Canadian government, in its official statement.
It specifies that the "birds tested within the framework of the national survey were in good health, and that nothing indicated that there are diseases associated with the influenza in the domestic or wild birds with the areas which were the subject of taking away".
"Of the analyses aiming confirming the H5 type and at determining type N of the virus are in hand", adds the official statement.
OKAY! NO MORE SNOWBIRDS!........ALLA YOU GUYS GO BACK HOME, EH?!!!!!
Infected Canadian ducks unlikley to have H5N1 virus
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada has discovered a strain of H5 avian flu in 33 wild migratory ducks but it is unlikely to be the killer H5N1 strain which has spread from Southeast Asia to Europe, a top health official said on Monday.
Jim Clark of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said a recent survey of 4,800 wild birds had found the H5 virus in 28 birds in the eastern province of Quebec and five in the central province of Manitoba.
"These findings do not indicate that we are dealing with a virus strain capable of causing significant illness," Clark told a news conference.
"The evidence we have observed strongly indicates that these healthy birds were not infected with the same virus that is currently present in Asia," he said.
The final tests on the bird samples will be ready in about a week. There are nine known N strains of the H5 virus.
Questioned on why he was announcing the discovery of a nonlethal strain of bird flu, Clark said, "I can't categorically state that what we're dealing with here isn't H5N1. It's highly unlikely."
The H5N1 strain was transmitted from Asia to Europe by migratory birds and some experts say it is likely to spread to the rest of the world. Experts fear that H5N1 will mutate just enough to allow it to pass easily from person to person, potentially causing a catastrophic pandemic as humans lack immunity to it.
At least 62 people have died from bird flu in an outbreak which started in Southeast Asia in late 2003.
Does this virus eventually kill the birds, or no?
Is that a new, small Hummer?
Just great. I'm in one of the major bird fly-ways.
Okay, does this mean we can now shoot all the Whooping Cranes?........
Hy-bird Hummer........
It's the H5eleventeen sixty-twelve virus I'm worried about myself.
LOL. Me too.
Well this is nothing to crow about.
I guess when I see birds flying toward me this winter I'll duck.
I'm just a big chicken when it comes to flu season.
My wife will have to goose me to go get my flu shot.
Well this is a fine feathered mess we're in.
"Experts fear that H5N1 will mutate just enough to allow it to pass easily from person to person, potentially causing a catastrophic pandemic as humans lack immunity to it." No fear! Many Creationists and ID advocate Freepers have assured me that no advantageous traits can arise from mutation and that therefore the H5N1 virus cannot possibly evolve to pass easily from person to person. What? Still scared? Come on, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
Dangerous biological weapons
Probably best to buy white cars then.
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