Bird flu in France....
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Original Poster:

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257 months

Saturday 18th February 2006
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and who gives a monkeys......
I personally enjoyed tucking into my roast chicken this evening and will do so tomorrow with the left overs.
No doubt the panic- mongerers will start soon and call for all birds in the UK to be shot and for us all to stop eating poultry....

Andy Mac

73,668 posts

286 months

Saturday 18th February 2006
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What good will shooting birds do? They can fly can't they... If it's gonna come, it will get here! can't kill all the birds!

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Original Poster:

1,331 posts

257 months

Saturday 18th February 2006
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Exactly

FortJefferson

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253 months

Saturday 18th February 2006
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I dread this getting to the UK, especially if they have to start culling birds. I live near the river Trent and we have about 150 swans on it. It just would'nt be the same without them.

monkeyhanger

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Saturday 18th February 2006
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pmanson

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284 months

Saturday 18th February 2006
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driller

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309 months

Sunday 19th February 2006
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>> Edited by driller on Sunday 19th February 07:45

scorp

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260 months

Sunday 19th February 2006
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im getting fed up of the media hysteria over this virus, the common cold is deadlier.

krusty

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280 months

Sunday 19th February 2006
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All they've got to do is wrap up a bit more....

Andy Mac

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286 months

Sunday 19th February 2006
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It is absurd. As you said, more people, (literally thousands) die every year through HUMAN flu, never mind Bird flu. If 100 people die from Bird flu then whats the big deal? As usual we all have to have something to worry about. I'm sure there is a law somehere that states people must have a certain state of fear in their lives.

FunkyNige

9,858 posts

306 months

Sunday 19th February 2006
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Andy Mac said:
It is absurd. As you said, more people, (literally thousands) die every year through HUMAN flu, never mind Bird flu. If 100 people die from Bird flu then whats the big deal? As usual we all have to have something to worry about. I'm sure there is a law somehere that states people must have a certain state of fear in their lives.


The big deal is that we have no way of immunising ourselves WHEN it mutates into a human virus. This scaremongering in the press is just crazy, all the scientists they inteview on the subject say it isn't spreading, the birds dying in other countries catch the flu in one place, then fly somewhere else to avoid the cold weather then die.

rich 36

13,739 posts

297 months

Sunday 19th February 2006
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wer'e all going to die!!!!



Oh...

pr'aps not then




forget it

wolves_wanderer

12,959 posts

268 months

Sunday 19th February 2006
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Maybe we should ban the import of all their poultry for no good scientific reason, in the same way as they refused to take our beef for years after we'd sorted BSE.

The sod of it is that our money will probably be used to pay massive compensation to French farmers.

Andy Mac

73,668 posts

286 months

Sunday 19th February 2006
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The BSE thing was a big red herring. Countries merely used it as an excuse to boost their own meat production, and export.