Interesting video on Bird Flu

[halfpint]

I watched this video the other day, it's a little long, but very interesting to watch. It's a combination documentary/dramatization of what could happen with bird flu. A doctor from the Mayo clinic seems to be their main resource.

 

There is a place in there where a family shows their stocks of supplies for bird flu, I wouldn't have done that. I suspect that they don't rotate their preps to a large extent either.

 

I'm going to try to get some friends that are doubtful about bird flu becoming a problem to watch this.

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7...earch&plindex=1

 

Dawn

[Jeepers]

Thanks for the link. Yeah, the video is long but very interesting and a great watch.

 

I'm going to go through my list and see if I can think of anything else to add to it.

[Aint2nuts]

I have wanted to watch this video for a while. DOn't know what is going on with my computer but as it is playing it stops and starts for several seconds and is very annoying. Shoot.

[Jeepers]

Do you have dial up? My dial up used to do that too.

 

I'd just start the video and mute the sound and go do something else. Then I'd come back to it and start it over using the bar thingy to slide it back to start.

 

Sometimes I think it needs time to load. By letting it load for awhile and then going back to start, it has time to finish loading while you watch the beginning.

[halfpint]

Originally Posted By: Aint2nuts

I have wanted to watch this video for a while. DOn't know what is going on with my computer but as it is playing it stops and starts for several seconds and is very annoying. Shoot.

It did the same thing to me as my internet was slow that day, so I put it on pause, and came back about 10 minutes later and watched it.
Dawn

[such is life!]

Thanks for this link...I sent it to members of my family. I have managed to convince my sister and I am now working on my brother and parents. I want my husband to watch it too as he supports me in my efforts but he doesn't quite take it very seriously!

[Jeepers]

When I read this article I thought of the video where the woman was upset with the researchers and wouldn't tell them the truth about her son. The bolding is mine.

 

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...6-12377,00.html

 

 

Eight districts in the eastern state of West Bengal have been hit by the virus, with dead birds being sold to locals who are said to be "feasting" on cheap chicken.

 

The state's animal resources minister, Anisur Rahaman, said authorities were "determined to cull all poultry in the districts in three or four days, otherwise the state will face a disaster".

 

More than 100,000 bird deaths have been reported, and teams are racing to cull two million chickens and ducks.

 

The Times of India reported five people in West Bengal have been quarantined with "clinical symptoms" of avian flu - including fever, coughing, sore throats and muscle aches - after handling affected poultry.

 

If the tests are positive for H5N1, this will be the first case of human infection in India, home to 1.1 billion people and hit by bird flu among poultry three times since 2006.

 

Health officials in New Delhi said they were currently analysing blood samples from close to 150 people who have complained of fever.

 

On the ground, culling teams have been facing an uphill battle with villagers smuggling birds out of flu affected areas and selling them in open markets.

 

Thirty-year-old Sheikh Ali, a vendor in Birbhum's Gharisa market, 340km from the state capital Kolkata, said the sale of poultry had doubled in the past week, as prices plunged.

 

"Poor villagers are feasting on chicken. At normal times, they cannot afford to buy as prices are so high. Now they are enjoying the meat," Mr Ali said.

 

People typically catch the disease by coming into direct contact with infected poultry, but experts fear a flu pandemic if the H5N1 mutates into a form easily transmissible between humans.

 

Migratory birds have been largely blamed for the global spread of the disease, which has killed more than 200 people worldwide since 2003.

 

In Birbhum, police seized two trucks of smuggled poultry early today but culling teams were yet to arrive at the spot.

 

"Poultry owners are smuggling their birds out at night and transporting it to different places for fear of culling," said Shubhendu Mahato, a security guard at Arambagh Hatchery, one of the biggest in West Bengal.

 

Chicken shops had also sprung up along the main highways overnight with people crowding them.

 

Neighbouring Nepal, which has banned poultry imports from India since 2006, said its border posts were on high alert.

 

Bangladesh, which also borders West Bengal, was meanwhile battling its own serious outbreak - with experts warning the situation was far worse than the government was letting on.

 

"Bird flu is now everywhere. Every day we have reports of birds dying in farms," said leading poultry expert and the treasurer of Bangladesh Poultry Association MM Khan.

 

"Things are now very, very serious and public health is under danger.

 

"The government is trying to suppress the whole scenario,'' Mr Khan said, adding that farmers were also holding back from reporting cases.