Egypt reports first human bird flu death

Reuters AlertNet ^ | March 18th, 2006 | Mohammed Abbas

[Nathan Zachary]

"I'm laying in a 6-mo supply of creamed corn, vienna sausages and powdered milk. You?"

that's not going to help you at all. You are supposed to have canned tuna and powdered milk, and it has to be under your bed!! I'm not sure why, but it's no good if it's not stored under your bed.

[nmh]

Don't eat SICK birds. They could have the disease.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Too much class for me. I like lime kool-aid with strips of baloney floating in it, for cocktail hour.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

See my post #23, for cocktail hour.

[EGPWS]

I like lime kool-aid with strips of baloney floating in it, for cocktail hour.

If I were to be holding a spoon, I would place it into position to gage me!

[CindyDawg]

Well yeah but I was wondering if they didn't want them raising any. That's where I'm concerned we are heading. Regulations will get so tight that only large companies will be able to raise beef, chickens etc. Maybe even gardens.

[nmh]

I'm not sure it's size that makes the difference.

Large companies can easily look the other way on disease, slaughter them and sell them to food stores. I know for a fact that a local foodstore in New Jersey, repackages hambuger AFTER it the expiration date and sold it as "fresh" and a new expiration date. They were eventually nailed on that but this went on despite "regualtions" for a long time - more than a year. As always there are some people that don't care and their only interest is in the $$$.

IF the disease progresses from human to human, THEN that is where the pandemic happens. Till then you have to be concerned about where you purchase your meat and hope it is not diseased.

[nmh]

This was a fairly large food store chain - Shop Rite in New Jersey.

[CindyDawg]

I understand but our government is known for over-reacting. I can see them wanting control and knowing where all the birds are. It's already started with having to register your animals.

[nmh]

I know what you're saying ... even for family pets the pressure is on to get them chipped.

I REFUSE to do THAT.

I don't want a foreign object in them unless it is medically necessary. We've had pets for OVER 20 years.

NONE of them have gotten lost.

NONE of them have run away from home.

NONE of them have been stolen.

One is a shelter adoption and one is a purebred. We've always had shelter animals and some with papers.

They don't run away from LOVING homes.
They don't "get lost" unless they are ill and then it is up to the owner to be observant and not let them out.
They've never been stolen because we keep an eye on them.

All these STUPID emotional SCARE tactics don't work with us. I don't want their "number" in some database.

Another thing ... if per chance they are run over, within "their territory" it is highly unlikely that some stranger is going to scrape them off the road, rush to a vets office and have them scanned so you can have the remains. I have NEVER heard of anyone doing that and I don't expect that to change.

[NRA2BFree]

I heard last night that Israel has began slaughtering "tens of thousands of turkeys" but that was all I caught. I*m assuming that it*s made it to Israel now too. Has anyone heard about it being in Israel?

[cmsgop]

I just went to Mc Donalds and got a S#$tload of Cheeseburgers !!!

[Termite_Commander]

Yes, it's probably there. There were thousands of birds that died, thousands more were culled, and there were ten people who were being checked for H5N1 infection. The first 4 have had their preliminary tests come back negative.

The other six are really just being checked as a precautionary measure, and probably don't have the virus. We haven't seen what results there are from them though.

[NRA2BFree]

Yes, it's probably there. There were thousands of birds that died, thousands more were culled, and there were ten people who were being checked for H5N1 infection. The first 4 have had their preliminary tests come back negative.

The other six are really just being checked as a precautionary measure, and probably don't have the virus. We haven't seen what results there are from them though.

Thanks! I just heard about it on the Albuquerque news at 5:00 pm. They are definitely slaughtering tens of thousands of turkeys. I've already bought a lot of chickens for my freezer, and I'm going to buy a few turkeys now too. I've purchased some dehydrated eggs, since so much food needs eggs to cook/bake.

What I don't understand is why these big farms don't slaughter and sell their birds before it hits their country. It seems to me like that would be the intelligent thing to do. Once it hits, no one can eat the meat. Even if they had to give it away to the citizens of their country so they could freeze it.

[Termite_Commander]

Well, I assume they'd rather wait to slaughter because there's no guarantee that the virus will infect their flocks soon, even if it is near their country.

Or, as was the case in India, they might hope they can cover up the outbreak so nobody is aware the virus actually is present.

[Judith Anne]

Thanks for the article.