Avian Flu Has Arrived In U/k

Merlin, you're determined to sustain this scaremongering.

I've bit my lip until now in the hope you'd learn from other postings, but FFS it's FLU not FLUE (so don't pass it off as a typo - you've done it several times).
 
Yes, I'm afraid that I have some very bad news. It's passed on! This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If he hadn't been nailed to the perch he would be pushing up the daisies! Its metabolical processes are of interest only to historians! It's hopped the twig! It's shuffled off this mortal coil! It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This.... is an EX-PARROT!
 
Originally posted by Desert Orchid@Oct 21 2005, 09:03 PM
Merlin, you're determined to sustain this scaremongering.

I've bit my lip until now in the hope you'd learn from other postings, but FFS it's FLU not FLUE (so don't pass it off as a typo - you've done it several times).
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:angy: FFS D/O........................ you must be going blind its says FLU ...by the way its NOT scaremongering either its what I heard/seen on the news..... so who the FCUK are you to say what anybody can post on here... you only been on here a tomato season.. :angry:

Do you have a degree in SPELLING TOO?????? I just lurf people such as you.... just mind your own fffnnnn business in future please as to how I post my threads thanks........ :P :lol:

and instead of trying to find fault post something of interest to others...............
 
AVIAN FLU is topical aint it??????????????? its not an attack on another member???

novel= refreshingly new: new and different, often in an interesting, unusual or inventive way :lol: :lol:
 
:o LONDON (Reuters) - A parrot that died in quarantine in Britain had contracted bird flu but officials do not yet know if it was the lethal strain which has sparked alarm in Europe in recent weeks, the agriculture ministry said on Friday.

Traces of the highly pathogenic H5 avian flu virus were found in the parrot imported from Suriname, South America, and held with other birds from Taiwan, a
statement said.
"We've got a lot of work going on in investigating the background to this very important development," chief veterinary officer Debby Reynolds said. "The parrot was in quarantine (and) the birds have been culled in quarantine."

The government said it did not yet know if the virus was of the H5N1 strain, which has killed more than 60 people in four Asian countries since breaking out in late 2003 in South Korea.

It has now reached as far west as European Russia, Turkey and Romania, tracking the paths of migratory birds.

H5N1 has triggered widespread concern because it can transfer to humans in some cases, although only if they have had prolonged and close contact with infected birds, and some experts fear it could mutate to transfer between humans.

Reynolds said it should take a "small number of days" to determine whether the parrot had H5N1. It would be the first case of the strain recorded in Britain, although the parrot was not officially inside the country as it was in quarantine.

Hugh Pennington, a leading microbiologist, said bird flu posed no risk to human health in Britain for now and the case should be simple to tackle as the parrot had been in quarantine.

"It should be very, very easy to nip this particular problem in the bud as we have done in the past with bird flu," he said.

"Bird flu comes to Britain every now and then and it's always been controlled ... by a slaughter policy of birds who the infected birds have met and it hasn't spread into the general bird population of the country," he told BBC News 24 television.

The parrot was part of a mixed consignment of 148 birds that arrived on September 16, the ministry said. They were held with another consignment of 216 birds from Taiwan.

The bird had been held in a secure quarantine unit and all the birds there were being culled humanely, the ministry said.

The small number of people who had been in contact with the birds were receiving antiviral treatment as a precautionary measure, the statement added.

"It is very difficult for humans to contract avian influenza. However, the necessary actions to protect human health have been taken in this instance," the ministry said.

"The confirmed case does not affect the UK's official disease-free status because the disease has been identified in imported birds during quarantine," Reynolds s
 
Which is precisely why we have quarantine for imports. The last parrot to die here from avian 'flu was in 1992, but it wasn't newsworthy then.

No one has any idea what strain of 'flu it is (despite the fact that the Melbourne Age decided that it was H5N1!) and it's very big odds against it being of that type. Anyhow, whatever it is, our quarantine regulations took care of it.
 
Three pigeons imported from Canada to Australia have shown that they have Bird Flu like symptoms. And they actually do have it.

I believe from reports that all imported birds will now be housed in the Northern Territory, to help prevent any outbreak if it should happen.
 
LordH,
Is your post of 10.41pm on 21 Oct from 'Dud and Pete' or from 'Monty Python'? A bottle of bubbly rests on your answer.
No, you can't claim it as original and have the prize!
 
Originally posted by Merlin the Magician@Oct 21 2005, 10:53 PM
FFS D/O........................ you must be going blind its says FLU ...
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Merlin, you're killing me...

Do you really think I'd have mentioned it if it hadn't got right on my t*ts that in spite of several others spelling it correctly, you repeatedly spelt wrongly this virus of which you are so dreadfully scared?

What was the point in editing your original spelling and then claiming that's how it was all along? It seems an awfully childish approach rather than just accepting your mistake and getting it right in future.
 
Merlin didn't edit the title, he can't. He can change his spellings in his posts though, which he has done.
 
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