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Jill · Guest

The situation in Wales and the North East of England around the H7N2 virus
continues as expected.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6699595.stm

There has obviously been a lot of work done tracing those who may have been
in contact with the virus from infected birds, either at the market or birds
sold from the market.
Sensible precautionary measures are being taken.

The figures of reported mild infection may well continue to rise. Its been
several weeks now and its quite possible people who were there have had a
few symptoms but dismissed them as just flu bugs doing the rounds.

There will have been a lot of people who bought small or single lots of
birds. Any of those who may have died since then could have been written off
as a bad market buy.
It seems that action is being taken to trace all these buyers and the other
sellers as well to check on them too.

I will be interested to hear where the birds came from in the first place -
thats the original contact, not the smallholding in Wales.
The lack of lots of other incidences rising to the surface with the media
attention suggests small breeder rather than large. Lets hope so, not that I
would wish this on anyone but some of the potential candidates in the area
have a very large customer base which could have much more serious
repercussions with regard to containing the virus.

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regards
Jill Bowis

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Elaine Jones · Guest

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posted on 29 May 2007 by Jill
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