Bird flu in Fife - no joke..

[4Hero]

Check out the BBC site.

[st3ph3n]

Spotted it a minute ago on my tours of the web. Nasty.

[col666]

Think most burds in Fife have something...[]

[dougster]

Hardly something to joke about.

That is disturbing news.

[andy]

It concerns me I live in Fife and it doesn't bloody say WHERE.

[FastScooby]

Eek.. wifey has been coughing for the past few days and has been complaining of a sore and things.

Spitting feathers at the moment cause she can't shift it [:S]

[paddy247]

I think this bird flu is over hyped, you have to be praticaly living with the animals and breathing the dust of there dropings constantanly to cach it   i think!

As is the case in the poorer countrys where it origanated

[road warrior]

yeh couldnt agree more, its' the government trying to protect their backs, predict the worst then when it doesnt happen folk forget about it, look at BSE a few years back, where's the massive deaths they were predicting about that?

 

[scientific steve]

When you think of all the people from the uk who work in the oil industry in parts of the world where our standards of living are a huge way off it makes you think for a moment.

I for one am quite worried about this, in some cases we cant tell where the food is coming from, how it is being prepaired and how clean these places are!

I dont want to put panic into folk for no reason but think how easy it is for one person to be working in any of these "Poorer countrys" one day and then arrive home the next.

In Baku just now there is a bit of a problem with this flu, a few reports have been made of birds droping down dead on rigs, one was found on this one yesterday, FACT. There are a number of procedures in place to make sure that no one can come into contact with the bird that was found.

One of the ministers from down here mucked up on telly the other day whilst being interviewed about a number of swans found dead, at first it was only said to be about 15 or so but he blurted out, by mistake, that over a hundred had been found, oopps.

steve

 

 

[grayscooby]

its just been on sky news it a little town called cellardyke that a dead swan was found , only a few miles along the road from where i stay

[zeolite]

Other dangerous "birds" in Fife http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4880266.stm

Not far from me but it is probably the thin end of the wedge. there will be infected birds all over the country that haven't been spotted. This just confirms that the threat is real.

[gogsie]

I'm in Ivory Coast and just had a chicken sandwich for ma tea!!!

[Gumball]

it all happens through there eh.

Bird flu, traffic cop nightmares, decat dramas,  cars taken by police

[:^)]

[Ken 275]

I seem to remember some talking head, maybe Sir Liam Donaldson, saying that it was not a question of "if avian flu arrives in the UK, but when".

Well who-ever it was that stated this was correct and here we go.

It could be very serious should the virus mutate. F&M was containable (apart from a few stupid farmers) but I don't remember ever seeing any cattle that could fly.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/latest/2006/animal-0405a.htm

K.

 

 

[Gumball]

WHO (world health organisation) reckon that if it mutates amongst mammals as it has with cats etc, then humans could start passing it onto each other and at least 700,000 people in the UK could be killed.

In a 9 year old boy in Vietnam, they found traces of the flu in his sh@t, lungs, urine, nose and blood. he lived with his sister in a room and she also got it. whats that all about???????

Shaking hands in the UK will be banned if it becomes a pandemic and starts taking out the village.

Star buying volvic and cans of food now and tape up your window sills, stay in, play GT4 and Toca and dont go out.

[scientific steve]

"Start buying volvic and cans of food now and tape up your window sills, stay in, play GT4 and Toca and dont go out"

thats my life already, if you include doom 3, project gothem 2, halo 2 and a few tins of beer coupled with pizza

aaaahhhhh, bliss

[Gumball]

dont forget the fags and your mobile for amusement too

[scientific steve]

sorry matey your talking to an ex smoker, stopped the weed 5 1/2 years ago

unless your on about summit else [][][]