Preventative Insecticides/Disinfectants

[MaureenHall]

It depends on how the virus mutates I think. If I get it then I'll wear a mask when I'm still at the infectious stage just in case. It's getting much closer to my home, one of my granddaughters and a son-in-law has it

[Bramble-Poultry]

speaking to one of the clinical team at the hospital, they say the would rather get it now than winter, as during the "traditional" flu season they are stretched enough as it is so to add swine flu on will stretch them to breaking point, so it would be best to get it over and done with now!

its all media hype anyways. unless you are seriously ill anyway, its just like a heavy cold speaking to them at the hospital. Last year somewhere around 15,000 died of ordinary flu like causes, but that never hit the news............. as it happens every year.

[Hilary B]

speaking to one of the clinical team at the hospital, they say the would rather get it now than winter, as during the "traditional" flu season they are stretched enough as it is so to add swine flu on will stretch them to breaking point, so it would be best to get it over and done with now!

its all media hype anyways. unless you are seriously ill anyway, its just like a heavy cold speaking to them at the hospital. Last year somewhere around 15,000 died of ordinary flu like causes, but that never hit the news............. as it happens every year.

There were headlines recently about some semi-scientific types reckoning there might be up to '500 deaths a day from swine flu'. I believe that is the theoretical 'worst case' and it sounds like not a lot worse than an ordinary 'bit worse than usual' flu year. They were assuming the possibility of100,000 new cases a day, and 0.5% fatality among those infected, 1 in every 200.
The latest headlines (yesterday) were stating that there had been 100,000 infected in the previous WEEK (and I would expect that most of those won't even know they've got it).

[Gorsty]

Morning folks

I still have a headache/sore throat but its not as bad as yesterday so .....

Realise we've kinda got off chicken topic but "IT"s on everyones minds - wish the media would play it down a bit though

[Bramble-Poultry]

Media is great at causing mass hysteria and paranoia where ever possible!

[di]

Morning folks

I still have a headache/sore throat but its not as bad as yesterday so .....

Realise we've kinda got off chicken topic but "IT"s on everyones minds - wish the media would play it down a bit though

Pleased you're feeling a bit better...agree the media really do need to start playing it down a bit...don't know how the govt/media can quote figures of how many peeps have IT when they aren't doing swabs to check who has/hasn't???...just a simple phonecall...not even being seen in person...and you seem to get diagnosed with IT???
Anyways...back to topic!!!Having before gone with the approach of waiting for a problem to rear it's ugly head,and then almost losing a broody chook to anaemia(mites),we now opt for the better safe than sorry approach.Coops get swept daily & ***** fluid scrubbing each week,(at the moment daily as we have a poorly Marigold),then fortnightly spray with poultry shield...we'll probably spray less once the weather cools.
The mites have been a real nightmare to get rid of,so I'd highly reccomend avoiding getting them.
Also we dust the girls down every few weeks with mite powder.It also works on lice.

[bluemoon]

Since it's not a bird 'flu type strain, I take it they can't catch it from us?

As I understand it birds and pigs are just as vulnerable to all types of flu as we are.