Curious that the crew is wearing hazmat suits but "humans can't catch it"?
Humans infections are asymptomatic (generally) but read about "genetic reassortment" - i.e. where a human is infected both with human influenza and an avian variety and the two flus transfer genetic material between one another thereby creating a hybrid flu that can both infect and create symptoms in humans.
This is why they don't want humans to catch the infection, symptoms or not.
PING!
I hate to see animals die like that. But of course, they are dying anyway and best put out of their misery, to say nothing of stopping the infection in its tracks. I wonder how many chickens that are sold in Spokane stores come from that area.
When folks post ‘locally oriented’ stories like this, they should at least tell us WHERE it is. (had to go to the “contact us” link on the source newspaper’s page to find where it was)
They can spread it.................
How many times have we heard that before, huh? Guess that's why the bird collecting crew is dressed in their swim trunks... oh, wait, never mind.
How does this affect chickens sold in grocery stores?
Re: “Avian Flu”
This is bad news.
On my daily run, I cross paths with two different flocks of Canadian geese.
They snack on the large areas of green grass that border the sidewalks around the Mercer Slough.
At least once or twice a week, especially in the winter, I have to play a hundred yards of sidewalk hopscotch around all the goose poop.
I frequently wonder what microbes might be airborne in those areas and what sort of infectious diseases I might be tracking back into my house.
The almost 100% human death rate in Asia from hybrid avian flu is always on my mind when I have to run through geese on the sidewalk. Those things are vicious. One of these days I know I’m going to get bit or scratched by one of those honkers.