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  • Bird flu in swans

    I've just been looking at the ministerial statement on the bird flu in swans and it seems that the swans were found over a period December 27 to Jan 4 and then stored in a freezer before being tested. This means it was 11 days before the first swan was tested for H5N1 and confirmed. Fortunately,...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Richard Allison on Tue, Jan 15 2008

  • Re: Bird flu again

    Yes birds can gain immunity to avian flu and I recall that in the low pathogenic H7N3 case in Norfolk last year, many of the free range birds had recovered. But the problem with the H5N1 high pathogenic strain is that mortality is very high with 70-90% of birds dying within hours of catching it. Allowing...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Richard Allison on Thu, Nov 15 2007

  • Bird flu again

    Just to confirm, DEFRA has announced that it is the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus. It also said that testing found th evirus to be closely related to that found in outbreaks in Germany and the Czech Republic this summer. To me, this suggests wild birds are to blame which is bad news for the industry....
    Posted to Chicken chat (Forum) by Richard Allison on Tue, Nov 13 2007

  • Re: Bird flu again

    Just to confirm, DEFRA has announced that it is the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus. It also said that testing found th evirus to be closely related to that found in outbreaks in Germany and the Czech Republic this summer. To me, this suggests wild birds are to blame which is bad news for the industry....
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Richard Allison on Tue, Nov 13 2007

  • Re: Bird flu again

    I've just heard that DEFRA is to announce what strain of virus has been detected on the affected farm this afternoon. But judging by the reported mortality rate, it sounds more like the highly pathogenic strain.
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Richard Allison on Tue, Nov 13 2007

  • Re: Bird flu again

    Fingers crossed that it's the low pathogenic version of the virus
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Richard Allison on Mon, Nov 12 2007
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