Bird Flu

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Hi Barbara,

 

>>Bird flu seems to have made its way to Turkey with the death of 2

>>Turkish teenagers.

 

Three deaths confirmed and 1 officially unconfirmed but certain. And

there are a number of folks hospitalized that probably have the disease.

 

The below link indicates that the cases are in Eastern Turkey but there

is also a case in Bursa, in Western Turkey .. not far from the Aegean.

 

> We (that is my husband and I) have been following the H5N1 virus for a

> long time. Anyone who is interested in learning the truth about this

> virus and much more would benefit from going to the following site. It

> is amazing, as usual, what they do not tell you.

>

> www.promedmail.org

>

> Barbara

 

What they don't tell us is about as much as they didn't tell us about

anthrax and some other weapons that are loose and unaccounted for today.

This is similar to the knowledge they have about how easy it is for any

terrorist organization to create havoc with a small scale weapon of mass

destruction .. be it chemical, biological or radiological. Governments

want to avoid having citizens panic.

 

Those who have worked in this area understand the realities and though

we're not prone to panic .. we exercise as much caution as possible

based on potential threats and are skeptical about the information we

read in the media.

 

The information in the link above is good information but the World

Health Organization runs behind the power curve in reporting because

they are reluctant to report local government testing .. they want

independent confirmation. That takes time so we're normally looking at

last weeks football scores.

 

As can be gleaned from the link you presented .. a problem in developing

and emerging market countries is ignorance and people's lack of trust in

their governments .. they are used to censored reports even when there

is little reason to hide the truth .. but often there is reason .. like

governments are afraid to lose revenue from tourism. The reaction of

the mayor in the movie " Jaws " has been repeated many times in the USA.

 

Many peasants here depend on selling 30-40 or so turkeys at the market

for $665-$885 and this might be half of the cash they acquire in a year

because they are used to subsistence farming and barter for the goods

they don't produce themselves. When a government offers to pay them

half that amount to destroy their birds some might hide the birds and

they are eager to accept tales put out by larger farmers claiming the

danger is propaganda being spread to increase sales of lamb, etc.

 

The Turkish Minister of Health says its not a big problem now .. but

some of the Dr. Professor types say its potentially a big problem.

 

Two days from now begins the Feast of Sacrifice .. Kurban Bayram .. a

time when families who can afford it purchase an animal, slaughter it

and give the meat to the poor. Birds are not appropriate sacrifices so

that will help somewhat, but the less affluent will eat poultry during

this period and many of them will kill and pluck the birds themselves ..

all will handle the birds even if they come from a butcher shop.

 

We're not touching poultry now .. matters not that they say cooking it

well makes it safe. We're not using our kitchen balcony as an extra

refrigerator now .. that's common here in winter for storing items

like potatoes, onions, oranges, cabbages, beer, wine and such. Reason

is they have also detected the virus in pigeons and Ankara has a pigeon

problem .. I'm not taking any chances.

 

We're eating fish or beef and lots of vegetable borscht .. lots of raw

garlic and onions and spicing foods with rosemary and oregano. We're

not eating out now because we can't be sure some cook didn't touch a

prepared food with hands that had previously touched poultry.

 

We're burning Oregano and Rosemary/Rosewood candles in the house and

diffusing and sniffing Oregano Essential Oil.

 

Am I too careful? Maybe. Am I sure the preventive measures I'm taking

will be effective? No. But there are no other options so I'll not

change my modus operandi.

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

 

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