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BRITAIN HAS REPORTED an outbreak of bird flu at a duck breeding farm in northern England but said that the risk to public health was “very low”.
A restriction zone has been set up around the farm and culling has begun, said a spokeswoman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
“We have confirmed a case of avian flu on a duck breeding farm in Yorkshire,” the spokeswoman said.
“The public health risk is very low and there is no risk to the food chain,” she said.
Avian influenza is fatal for chickens, and poses a health threat to humans, who can become sickened by handling infected poultry.
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed more than 400 people, mainly in Southeast Asia, since first appearing in 2003. Another strain of bird flu, H7N9, has claimed more than 170 lives since emerging in 2013.
The British official did not specify which exact strain was detected at the farm in Yorkshire.
Dutch officials earlier on Sunday banned the transport of poultry in the Netherlands after the discovery of a highly infectious strain of bird flu which could jump to humans.
The “highly pathogenic” form of avian influenza discovered at a farm in the centre of the country is very dangerous to birds and “contamination can occur from animals to humans,” the Dutch government said in a statement.
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Thank God it’s only bird flu outbreak, if it was man flu pandemic It’d be a lot more serious!!!!
It’s eggbola!!!!
Bird flu is like human flu, dozens of strains and we’ve often had it in Ireland. Last one I remember was a turkey farm in Monaghan.
The English Gematria of Flu = 234 (6x6x6+6+6+6)
The English Gematria of HIV = 234
The English gematria of Vaccination = 666
http://www.gematrix.org/?word=vaccination
Ebola 210 (a number divisible by 7)
Swine = 420 (a number divisible by 7)
AIDS = 33
Influenza: 648
Human Immunodeficiency Virus: 1884
I have quite a bit of time for most of your contributions on here, but Christ you are seriously off the ball on this one..
Ebola Vaccines in English Gematria = 666
God knows what they will call it and no doubt it will also add up to something sinister.
Crazy = Ablitive
Andy Lane The abbreviation for Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) = 234
Two chicken-sized Asprin and off to bed with them
I thought it was in Holland? And that it was a virulent strain.
Sorry…I’m still asleep.
Actually Randle I heard that on the radio (News talk) this morning as well. But they have corrected themselves now.
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