More OT but it seems from this evening's news that bird flu MAY WELL spread to the (filthy) pigeon and the (flocks of) sparrows. AS I POSTULATED in the original post.
Wonder how the advocates of these disgusting birds (pigeons) who attacked my original post will squirm out of it now?
More importantly, can this dozy country wake-up and implement an immediate ban on garden feeders that attract pigeons? And also an immediate cull of these filthy birds. Or do we have to wait for it to be endemic first?
What's your hurry? Either way you will be onto a winner.
So lady (or ladies or whatevers) and gruntlemen;
Do we kill them before it is too late or do we kill them when it is too late or do we go back to sleep? Anzzwerzzzz.. 'nnnapzzzz card plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........
*It's not endemic first then second it is endemic. A minor point but you like minor points in this your final hour. Do points mean prizes?
Cant; wait...but then the raptors may get it too. That would be bad. And the cats ...
Well small bird populations fluctuate with alarming rapidity and depth. Once the bird populations is at about 10% of what it is now, the flu will die out naturally.
I haven't noticed any pigeons on line recently...but heck the buggers are everywhere.
Garden feeders round here do not attract pigeons. They are busy taking their tithe off the rape fields. Its bloody subsidised rape that cause the pigeons you know. Filthy stinking crop feeds filthy stinking birds.
Same question re Contamination St and DeadEnders (but with the cancer prog you might actually learn summat about the disease)?
I know "17 million people .." Maybe it's also a clever plot, getting those who wouldn't normally watch documentrys to help them learn how to deal with 'real world' issues?
- "In China, where the disease is endemic among birds, just 14 infections and 8 deaths have been confirmed by the World Health Organisation in a population of 1.3 billion people ? a rate of one case per 93 million and one death per 163 million."
Unless you are in the habit of kissing your pigeons you are very* unlikely to be infected in this way. The million-times more likely way of your getting bird flu is by some of those millions of contacts in China (with people kissing their feathered dinosaurs) getting a version of 'bird-flu' that passes from human to human.
You don't like the sad old biddy feeding the pigeons, so you've seized upon the bird flu to excite a bit of fear in the apathetic neighbours. The pigeons are her best friends, better than her neighbours.Ring the local council and speak to the Witchfinder, I'm sure they'll be able to have her burnt at the stake for you.
They (pigeons) perform a useful function in turning waste and insects into guano. This would have been a useful function in their natural habitat, but the filthy birds follow the filthy people and feed on their waste. Besides which, most of their natural habitat has been tarmaced over or turned in an chemically-sanitized agribusiness desert.
Let me reassure you that there is very little possibility of your becoming infected with bird-flu from the pigeons. Those who have become infected with the H5N1 avian flu were mostly living in close proximity with infected poultry. There is some concern that an avian flu has been able to infect other species; the fear is that it may infect livestock which carry other human strains of flu and then mutate into a human-human transmissible form. If this does happens, you will probably catch the virus from one of your neighbours and then die.
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