Posted by George on October 23rd, 2005
The avian flu has spread to England now. It’s a matter of time before it rest the United States.
The British government said Sunday that a strain of bird flu that killed a parrot in quarantine is the deadly H5N1 strain that has plagued Asia and recently spread to Europe.
Scientists determined that the parrot, imported from South America, died of the strain of avian flu that has devastated poultry stocks and killed 61 people in Asia the past two years, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
The virus is spread by migrating wild birds and has recently been found in birds in Russia, Turkey and Romania, spurring efforts around the globe to contain its spread.
Scary things are happen in this world.
Via AP
When is this issue going to get the attention it deserves. When there is a pandemic?
Corey Cotta, Author of All of Yesterdays Tomorrows.