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Well it took its time getting here looks like the chickens will be going cheep in the supermarkets now.
[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3422839.stm]BBC Avian Q&A [/url] said:How do humans catch bird flu?
Bird flu was thought only to infect birds until the first human cases were seen in Hong Kong in 1997.
Humans catch the disease through close contact with live infected birds.
Birds excrete the virus in their faeces, which dry and become pulverised, and are then inhaled.
Symptoms are similar to other types of flu - fever, malaise, sore throats and coughs. People can also develop conjunctivitis.
Researchers are now concerned because scientists studying a case in Vietnam found the virus can affect all parts of the body, not just the lungs.
This could mean that many illnesses, and even deaths, thought to have been caused by something else, may have been due to the bird flu virus.
keyplayer said:Don't they go cluck cluck.
keyplayer said:Don't they go cluck cluck.
Pigs might fly........ Lets bl##dy hope not !!...Health officials tried to calm public fears, saying that the risk to humans was minimal and that it was only possible to catch bird flu by close contact with living birds or their droppings.... There is also a risk of avian flu being transmitted to domestic pigs, which are known to be capable of being simultaneously infected with avian and human strains of influenza.....
B.O.B DOLE said:one of my pet chickens keeps sneezing do you think i should grass on him to the authorities.