poultry flu

Sparrows the scapegoats for H5N1 in chicken farm

Ah, isn't ignorance bliss, especially when you're an "expert".

Today's South China Morning Post has a report including:

Quote:
Experts who visited the Yuen Long chicken farm at the centre of the latest bird flu outbreak found important evidence flying around - sparrows.
The experts believe that chickens and sparrows, which can carry the H5 virus, living together signalled a serious failure in the farm's bio-security measures and may have caused the bird flu outbreak last month.

Submitted by Martin Williams on 6 January 2009 - 10:17am
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