Bird Flu In Scotland

[jambuttie]

God this is frightening it's on our doorstep now

gosh is there?

So idiots guide to bird flu needed. What is the problem/risk?

My ds feeds chickens at his nursey and dp is avet so i could do with knowing!

being careful when handling bird poo generally (if you do that sort of thing), and otherwise hope to god it does not mutate and become infectious person to person.

Everyone who has caught it handled infected birds on a regular basis I think.

There has been tody a pisstake thread going on MN about this. The people who have caught it either lived with the birds (frequent contact with their poo) or plucked feathers off of wild birds. Are these frequent habits of yours?

I think the idiot's guide is wash your hands well if by chance you do come in contact with a sick bird, otherwise, don't touch sick birds.

It's endemic in wild birds in Vietnam, where most poultry is raised in people's tiny yards or even inside their homes, and still only a small number of Vietnamese people have died from it.

So you can tell I don't see why people are so bothered; not like you can do a single thing about it. Give me the USA getting upset about nuclear weapons in Iran, that's something to worry about.

my dh has to travel through Fife by train to get home and he says the trains are being diverted away from fife

does anyone have any info on this?

nailpolish there was a swan last week taken from a beach in fife and it was confirmed today that it had bird flu.

Also heard on 2pm news that there are another 2 suspected birds in glasgow being tested.

Hope hubby isn't delayed to much

sigh

if its not one thing its another...

Yes, just like a whole lot of other stuff. Belief me, even in the grips of a pandemic, you're far, far more likely to die in a car accident.

ahh well when you consider that every year around 4000 people (mainly the elderly) are killed by the effects of human flu in the UK alone(and that's in a non-pandemic year - pandemic years can rise up to 10k or more) - and there have been less than 200 deaths from bird flu worldwide since 1997 (first recorded case). And that's the same number of people (200) that die from TB each year in the UK it does kind of put things into perspective.

Worldwide death toll for human flu each year is estimated to be at least 1million people - again thats' in a non-pandemic year.

nailpolish, there is nothing on the bbc travel pages about train disruption!

hmmm

why is my dh making it up?

dont answer that