Coronavirus

It's no laughing matter, I've just read here..https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10341143/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-comes-deadly-epidemic-nightingale-sneezed-Berkeley-Square.html ...we now have a bird flu epidemic. :o :o ;)


BJ. :lol:
 
Most birds will be much better at social distancing and probably mask wearing than some humans
 
According to the gift tags on my Christmas stocking presents, my flock have been in the chocolate aisle of Sainsbury's recently. I hope they were able to keep their masks on, given the shape of their ears !
 
Icemaiden said:
According to the gift tags on my Christmas stocking presents, my flock have been in the chocolate aisle of Sainsbury's recently. I hope they were able to keep their masks on, given the shape of their ears !
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Probably used the surgical ones with ties, so they could tie them round the back of their heads.
But more importantly - what did they give you??

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A bar of dark chocolate each. Now I've got a flock of seven, that's quite a lot of chocolate! Now if only they knew that I prefer milk chocolate... Mind you, they prefer corn, but they still have to mostly make do with layers' pellets... :-)
 
Icemaiden said:
A bar of dark chocolate each. Now I've got a flock of seven, that's quite a lot of chocolate! Now if only they knew that I prefer milk chocolate... Mind you, they prefer corn, but they still have to mostly make do with layers' pellets... :-)
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[emoji23][emoji23]that's probably why you got dark chocolate rather than milk!

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What now??? I understood that bird flu could not affect us??? not according to this..https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10375255/Now-Britain-gets-hit-BIRD-FLU-Health-chiefs-detect-strain-person-South-West-England.html
 
It can infect people, but it's not easy to catch it. You certainly wouldn't pick it up through casual, brief contact. You need quite prolonged contact with infected birds, as seems to be the case here. The article says there were a large number of infected birds in and around the person's home. Maybe a poultry or pigeon keeper who also had an indoor aviary. In such a scenario you'd need to be obsessive about your bio security measures. Maybe overall and boots outside for seeing to outside birds, and leave those outside, and shower and change clothes when coming back in the house. Every single time.
And, really importantly, not hesitating, hoping for the best, if you even have a suspicion that a bird might be ill.

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There is indeed the possibility that the bird flu virus could evolve a new variant which could jump species to humans, with potentially pandemic consequences. Coronavirus has presumably done this already, and its virus is lethal to so many unvaccinated people because it’s entirely new to human immune systems, which have no natural defences against it. There is quite a body of research from more reputable sources than the Daily Mail about instances where people have been affected by bird flu or other similar ‘rogue’ viruses, largely in China and other Asian and eastern countries where birds and animals are often kept in unhygienic conditions in people’s back yards and in close contact with their owners - or infections traced to ‘bush meat’ in Africa, sold in street markets etc. Some of the SARS viruses which have cropped up in past years have been extremely lethal, far worse than coronavirus.
Our own regulations about bird flu are in place largely to try to prevent the possible spread of the virus to the human population, as much as in the interests of commercial poultry and egg suppliers.it’s impossible to regulate the wild bird population, and efforts there have to be confined to monitoring suspicious deaths and disposing of corpses in safe ways.
 
And this is exactly why anyone keeping poultry or birds is advised to have the flu vaccine.

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And keep their bird feeders really clean, and wash their hands after handling bird feeders whether for chickens or wild birds.

Also this, today, from the Guardian. Sounds like a small- scale poultry keeper with birds ‘kept in and around their home.’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/06/rare-bird-flu-case-detected-in-person-in-south-west-england

And this, from several months ago;
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/01/china-confirms-first-human-case-h10n3-bird-flu-strain-man-jiangsu
 
Well my luck finally ran out today, did a Covid test before work and tested positive, so 5 days at home. I feel fine no symptoms what so ever. OH did one that was negative.

So I thought " well better tell my sister, and try and get her to go in and help mum" I would have more luck getting a chicken to go round there. So OH is going round and we have to keep everything crossed she doesn't pass it on
 
bigyetiman said:
Well my luck finally ran out today, did a Covid test before work and tested positive, so 5 days at home. I feel fine no symptoms what so ever. OH did one that was negative.

So I thought " well better tell my sister, and try and get her to go in and help mum" I would have more luck getting a chicken to go round there. So OH is going round and we have to keep everything crossed she doesn't pass it on
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Hope you continue to feel OK and that OH doesn't get it. You've just reminded me I need to do a test before choir practice! :)
 
Bad Luck BYM, I hope you continue to feel fine, and commiserations on your lack of sibling success. I also hope MrsBYM continues to feel fine and test negative. A worrying time for you all, with an elderly parent.
 
Ah, rotten luck, BYM! Hope you continue symptom free. Two of my nieces had it just after Christmas. They didn't have a symptom between them. And, their parents, living in the same small house, didn't get it.

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It's day 4 and no symptoms and the line on the PCR test was so faint this morning you could hardly see it, hoping it is negative tomorrow. On the plus side, got a lot of scale modelling done including the BBMF Dakota, and changed the brakes on the car.
OH still negative, and she got her dental appointment, she did phone the surgery, and they said as long as her test was negative she was ok to go. One troublesome molar removed with difficulty
 
Tested negative this morning :-)08 :-)08 :-)08 :-)08. Only symptoms I had was woke up with the headache and a slight sore throat, rest of the time felt A1. So I guess I was quite lucky. A friends niece is just on her 3rd dose of Omicron since November and feels really awful and still positive on day 7
 
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