[blam]

"They were walking around like nothing's happened," said a local man. "They didn't seem to realise how serious this is."

I'm amazed that these workers are so unaware of the dangers. How could they not know...this is a developed country after all.

[THEUPMAN]

it emerged that the first 71 birds died last Tuesday.


71 birds dead in a house is not much .... one of the daily jobs is to go through the house and pick up dead birds.
It's not suprising that no one noticed until the numbers shot up.