How Local Zoo’s Are Preventing Bird Flu

[britmaveric]

How local Zoo’s are preventing the return of bird flu.

Bird Flu has returned to Thailand; however there are no confirmed cases of the deadly flu virus here in Pattaya or the surrounding area as yet. We took our cameras to the Kow Keow Zoo in nearby Sriracha district to see how the attraction is implementing a flu prevention program. As you can see many of the cages are being continuously disinfected and animals are monitored on a regular basis for any signs of the virus, which, for now, has not come to the Zoo. As a precaution we urge you not to touch any live poultry and ensure that any poultry dishes you consume at restaurants are thoroughly cooked. It is hoped that the Bird Flu virus here in Thailand can be contained, however if it does return then the zoo’s and parks are ready to cull animals and close down attractions should it be necessary which is obviously not good news for tourism especially with the on-set of high season.

-Pattaya City News

Tuesday 25th October 2005

[Pattaya_Fox]

How local Zoo’s are preventing the return of bird flu.

 

Bird Flu has returned to Thailand; however there are no confirmed cases of the deadly flu virus here in Pattaya or the surrounding area as yet. We took our cameras to the Kow Keow Zoo in nearby Sriracha district to see how the attraction is implementing a flu prevention program. As you can see many of the cages are being continuously disinfected and animals are monitored on a regular basis for any signs of the virus, which, for now, has not come to the Zoo. As a precaution we urge you not to touch any live poultry and ensure that any poultry dishes you consume at restaurants are thoroughly cooked. It is hoped that the Bird Flu virus here in Thailand can be contained, however if it does return then the zoo’s and parks are ready to cull animals and close down attractions should it be necessary which is obviously not good news for tourism especially with the on-set of high season.

-Pattaya City News

Tuesday 25th October 2005

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Unfortunately on a previous occasion the tigers were fed on some infected poultry which had not been screened. This introduced the virus to them and killed about 150....Let us hope that the Zoo now feeds the animals on healthy food.

[patsfangr]

The whole bird flu issue upset me in several ways. Obviously, the danger to people is disturbing. But I am also an unabashed animal lover. Their losses hurt me as well.

I had hoped that I'd be able to build a small aviary on my property, with a couple of dozen birds (parakeets, finches, lovebirds, etc). However, I assume that is either illegal, or ill-advised now, due to the threat of bird flu.

Does anyone have any specific information on that aspect of it? Is the idea of building an aviary totally out of the question due to either legality or health concerns? Is the sale of pet birds now banned, or simply out of business due to fear, in Thailand?

George

[Pattaya_Fox]

The whole bird flu issue upset me in several ways. Obviously, the danger to people is disturbing. But I am also an unabashed animal lover. Their losses hurt me as well.

I had hoped that I'd be able to build a small aviary on my property, with a couple of dozen birds (parakeets, finches, lovebirds, etc). However, I assume that is either illegal, or ill-advised now, due to the threat of bird flu.

Does anyone have any specific information on that aspect of it? Is the idea of building an aviary totally out of the question due to either legality or health concerns? Is the sale of pet birds now banned, or simply out of business due to fear, in Thailand?

George

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Yes George it`s a very sad situation.

I have just been looking at the bird flu news about Thailand and according to some international newspapers it is now feared that the virus has spread to 39 of Thailand`s provinces.

The government will soon have to admit to the level of bird infections within the country. Now that it has spread to western countries then the Thai authorities may find it politically easier to tell the truth about the level of the spread of this viscious disease.

I think that you should postpone the building of an aviary and of acquiring pet birds certainly for the time being. If there are any signs of the disease in your area then your birds would have to be slaughtered.

[britmaveric]

Pattaya Fox - admit? Come on they will never do that - rest assured.

[Pattaya_Fox]

Pattaya Fox - admit? Come on they will never do that - rest assured.

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..oh ye of little faith

[sriracha john]

How local Zoo’s are preventing the return of bird flu.

  

Bird Flu has returned to Thailand; however there are no confirmed cases of the deadly flu virus here in Pattaya or the surrounding area as yet. We took our cameras to the Kow Keow Zoo in nearby Sriracha district to see how the attraction is implementing a flu prevention program. As you can see many of the cages are being continuously disinfected and animals are monitored on a regular basis for any signs of the virus, which, for now, has not come to the Zoo. As a precaution we urge you not to touch any live poultry and ensure that any poultry dishes you consume at restaurants are thoroughly cooked. It is hoped that the Bird Flu virus here in Thailand can be contained, however if it does return then the zoo’s and parks are ready to cull animals and close down attractions should it be necessary which is obviously not good news for tourism especially with the on-set of high season.

-Pattaya City News

Tuesday 25th October 2005

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Unfortunately on a previous occasion the tigers were fed on some infected poultry which had not been screened. This introduced the virus to them and killed about 150....Let us hope that the Zoo now feeds the animals on healthy food.

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Just for the record, that was Sriracha Tiger Zoo, not Kao Kheow Zoo that culled dozens and dozens of beautiful tigers who had been fed raw, infected chickens.

[CGW]

For my first post on this forum:- as follows.

Posted on the web today by a respected Doctor!

Rumsfield has been a canny lad over the years - hel_l of a salesman, Bell Helicopters to Saddam, Aspamante, key ingredient in Diet coke etc, once approved for biological warfare -

Rumsfeld To Profit From Bird Flu Hoax

By Dr. Mercola

Avian FluFinally, the pieces of the puzzle start to add up. Not long ago, President Bush sought to instill panic in this country by telling us a minimum of 200,000 people will die from the avian flu pandemic, but it could be as bad as 2 million deaths in this country alone.

This hoax is then used to justify the immediate purchase of 80 million doses of Tamiflu, a worthless drug that in no way shape or form treats the avian flu, but only decreases the amount of days one is sick and can actually contribute to the virus having more lethal mutations.

So the U.S. placed an order for 20 million doses of this worthless drug at a price of $100 per dose. That comes to a staggering $2 billion.

We are being told that Roche manufactures Tamiflu and, in a recent New York Times article, they were battling whether or not they would allow generic drug companies to help increase their production.

But if you dig further you will find that a drug was actually developed by a company called Gilead that 10 years ago gave Roche the exclusive rights to market and sell Tamiflu.

Ahh, The Plot Thickens...

If you read the link below from Gilead, you'll discover Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was made the chairman of Gilead in 1997.

Since Rumsfeld holds major portions of stock in Gilead, he will handsomely profit from the scare tactics of the government that is being used to justify the purchase of $2 billion of Tamiflu.

For more on the nonsense of the avian flu hoax, you'll want to review

Avian Flu Epidemic Scare is a Hoax

"If you have been viewing the media you must have seen the scare the media and the president are seeking to orchestrate on you and the public. According to a draft of the government's plan to fight a potentially cataclysmic pandemic this new avian super-flu could kill nearly TWO MILLION Americans.

But I nearly fell out of my seat in the airplane as I was flying back from a conference in Ft. Lauderdale when I read that in the BEST-case scenario, only 200,000 people might die.

Then they post the frightening picture from the 1918 flu epidemic to heighten the fear. It just amazes me how they can get away with this type of reporting that is so obviously manipulated by the government and drug companies to scare you into taking the flu vaccine.

The popular media continues to reinforce this unbased fear. In the editorial section of the October 17, 2005 issue of the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Henry Miller, former director of the Office of Biotechnology at the FDA, seeks to frighten the US public by telling us that the avian flu virus can jump from birds to humans and produce a fatal illness in 50% of those infected.

Ah there's the rub. 50% fatality rate sounds pretty scary to me. What Dr. Miller and the other experts fail to explain is how these numbers were derived. Did they examine everyone who contracted the avian flu and use those numbers or did they examine the sickest of the sick who had come down with the avian flu and determine the mortality from there?

Of course it was the later, and from the 60 people who have died from this in THIRD world countries we are being told that anywhere from 200,000 AT BEST to two million people at worst will die from the avian flu.

This is shody science at best and beyond belief that any reputable scientist could get away with such nonsense.

Daily Show Parody

Fortunately contemporary comedians can see right through this nonsense. Here are the links to Jon Stewart's scathing and brilliant Daily Show piece on bird flu. But I have to warn you that it may cause you to hurt yourself from laughing so hard, especially the World Health expert comments on the avian flu killing 150 million people and even funnier comment of George Bush on bird to people transmission.

Quicktime Link (106 MB) MP3 Link (6.7 MB)

What Happened to Common Sense?

The avian flu epidemic hoax reminds me just how uncommon "common sense" is. Folks where is the sound basic science here? How do they make the giant leap of faith that 60 deaths will translate to 2 million or even 200,00 deaths in the US from a virus that does NOT readily spread from birds to humans or humans to humans?

Most of the people who acquired this infection were bird handlers who were in continuous contact with these sick birds. Does anyone in their right mind envision similar circumstances in the US?

Research like this would typically be thrown in the trash if it did not strongly support some ulterior purpose.

What might the purpose of these scare tactics be you ask?

Well how about the US purchasing huge quantities of antiviral drugs and an increase in flu vaccine production along with purchasing 20 million doses of the highly questionably effective Tamiflu. Guess how much one treatment of Tamiflu costs? Give yourself a slap on the back if you guessed $100.

Donald Rumsfeld to Profit Big Time

So those 20 million doses the government has authorized will cost US Taxpayers 2 BILLION dollars.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will likely profit handsomely from the announcement the government is purchasing $2 billion of Tamiflu, the drug developed by Gilead Sciences when Rumsfeld was president of the company. He is reported to hold major portions of stock in Gilead

Not very different from his previous experience with aspartame where he was president of Searle and was able to get asparatame approved after being blocked by the FDA for more than a decade.

Now I think very few of us would mind if this drug actually worked and prevented even a few people from dying. But does it do that? Not really. About all anyone can expect from this drug is that it might make the symptoms a bit less severe. On the downside (aside from setting you back $100) Dr. Tenpenny explained in her Flu Tele Clinic last week Tamiflu can actually cause the virus to mutate into a more dangerous and potent viral strain.

Yesterday US Congress asked Roche, the maker of Tamiflu to suspend its patent and have others make it because they could not likely keep up with the demand, but of course Roche refused saying Tamiflu is hard to make and it would take another company three years to "get up to speed".

What they were really saying is they could care less about the public, what their primary focus on was to not share their windfall profits mandated by the US Congress.

Worthless Flu Shots

Of course let us not forget the flu shots which many will use get when they confuse avian flu with the regular flu. Please understand even if you believe the flu shots work, the flu shot you can now purchase is in no way shape or form designed to protect you against the flu. They are completely different strains. (Avian flu is H5N1 strain).

But rest assured the makers of flu vaccines will not lose this unusal opportunity to rape the American public of even more profits. Today we learned that those getting the flu shotsmay see a 25% increase in prices at clinics, doctors' offices and medical centers because of increases in the wholesale cost of the vaccines.

History Repeats Itself

Investigative journalist Ida Honorof for decades published a consumer newsletter and broadcast a regular radio program. Honorof received a first prize award from Associated Press for investigative journalism. The Los Angeles Times and other publications credited her with breaking some of the biggest horror stories of our time.

Ida Honorof wrote, "the most brazen, obscene electioneering ploy" ever and added that it was proposed by the President "and his coterie of scientific hacks, fabricated to cause pure unadulterated panic and guarantee political capital, rammed through without consideration of people's health and lives and approved by a band-wagon Congress" eager to make the nation's "health" a bipartisan concern.

The above quote was not written about the avian flu epidemic but the 5 million swine-flu vaccine program of 30 years ago. The hastily contrived program for swine flu resulted in hundreds of Guillain Barre Syndrome paralysis victims as well as countless deaths for a flu pandemic that never materialized.

The pocketbook purloining proposed by the Senate is more than 3,000 per cent greater than that of 30 years ago! Has your paycheck increased 3,000 per cent in the last 30 years?

[sriracha john]

...and from the same website:

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I will achieve this through Mercola.com by providing you with comprehensive, clear and researched guidance on the best nutrition, medical, emotional therapy and lifestyle choices to improve and maintain total health.

This guidance will not be tainted by advertisers, investors, sponsors, or any other party offering financial or other returns in exchange for the promotion of their ideas, suggestions or goods."

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Suck people in with eye-catching conspiracy theories in the medical field and then sell them crap. Good marketing, Doc.

Edited October 26, 2005 by sriracha john