The very LAST thing the Secty of Ag should be telling people to do is to get a backyard flock of chickens. Hello, highly pathogenic avian influenza pandemic? If you kept them in an enclosure, that could work, but wandering around in the open where wild birds fly around? Bad idea. The one guy in the U.S. who died from this flu contracted …
The very LAST thing the Secty of Ag should be telling people to do is to get a backyard flock of chickens. Hello, highly pathogenic avian influenza pandemic? If you kept them in an enclosure, that could work, but wandering around in the open where wild birds fly around? Bad idea. The one guy in the U.S. who died from this flu contracted it from his backyard flock. In other countries, like in SE Asia and Egypt, the fatality rate among people who caught it from birds is about 50%. Fortunately, the dairy cows and dairy workers have had mild disease due to the particular mutations that occurred in order for the virus to infect bovine mammary cells, but really, folks, stay away from birds. Just look at the little tweeties in your area and don't handle any.
The very LAST thing the Secty of Ag should be telling people to do is to get a backyard flock of chickens. Hello, highly pathogenic avian influenza pandemic? If you kept them in an enclosure, that could work, but wandering around in the open where wild birds fly around? Bad idea. The one guy in the U.S. who died from this flu contracted it from his backyard flock. In other countries, like in SE Asia and Egypt, the fatality rate among people who caught it from birds is about 50%. Fortunately, the dairy cows and dairy workers have had mild disease due to the particular mutations that occurred in order for the virus to infect bovine mammary cells, but really, folks, stay away from birds. Just look at the little tweeties in your area and don't handle any.