Topic: bird flu

Originally from: Ron Hello Coleen and Francis, As someone, who in the 1960's and '70's, was involved with Public Protection in the event of Nuclear War, I can tell you that there was very little protection for the 'masses'. Right up to the 1970's when all Civil Defence and the Royal Observer Corps were disbanded, any so called 'Protection' was just a cynical exercise. But as a poster at that time said, "Will the living envy the dead".

Originally from: coleen Hi Francis I agree with what you write…who in their right minds would believe or feel reassured by anything that 'lot' say! If bird flu really did get a hold here – how on Earth they would deal with it I have NO idea.

Originally from: mona parr Not sure what is going on but my message re-dead swans has taken over 2 weeks to come back to me Heard nothing about tests on swans so assume they died of natural causes--like lead poisoning or swallowing fishing line!!

Originally from: Joyce May I suggest that anyone who had a form from the SVS [State Vet Service – sounds more like USSE every day]asking for the numbers of poultry kept uses the prepaid envelope to send them some well chosen info from warmwell.com I suggest only a couple of sentences with references as we all know how short their attention span is when it comes to learning anything new.

Originally from: coleen Hi Two cases (so they tell us) so far, and both times wrong information given. The Quarantine Centre in Essex (samples from Finches and Parrots muddled up) when asked – how this could happen Margaret Beckett had NO answer. Heavens, what would happen if they were swamped with tests? Then the Swan who changed species and was probably washed ashore from another Country – so they would have us believe.

Originally from: Mary Critchley April 12 2006 ~ "DEFRA is like a dead swan – Discuss" Magnus Linklater in The Times today asks: "Why are we still shuttling dead birds across the country to the single laboratory capable of testing them, when there is a sophisticated and foolproof form of local testing that could diagnose the virus in under six hours? " "....

Originally from: coleen ----- Original Message ----- From: ... Originally from: "Alexis Lacy" <...> To: <...> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 6:07 PM Subject: Advocates for Animals' latest Press Statement in response to Bird Flu PRESS STATEMENT Thursday 6 April 2006 – For Immediate Use IN RESPONSE TO THE CONFIRMATION THAT A SWAN IN SCOTLAND HAS DIED OF HIGHLY PATHOGENIC...

Originally from: frances fish Welcome back Mark. We missed you. Glad you are on the mend, just in time for bird flu. Any comments ? Frances

Originally from: frances fish Hi Coleen, How are you ? Bird Flu seems to have awoken everyone up, perhaps because of the terrible deja vu it gives from 2001 ?Anyway, as I understand it, we have only just ordered a few million doses(not nearly sufficient but then, money is tight, war is expensive)of vaccine. Possibly we were shamed into this by other EU members who are better prepared ?

Originally from: Mike As the news breaks this weekend that the world epidemic of Bird flu has now spread across Europe via migrating swans, it is, synchronistically, today, the 5th Anniversary of the start of the world's worst foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) epidemic in which between 5 and 8 million animals (mostly healthy and uninfected) were slaughtered. These included children's pet lambs, calves, goats and even zoo animals.