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Having half a dozen parrots that live in a flight cage in my garden,  
and living where everyone and their brother has been in the habit of  
raising their own poultry, the issue has been important to me...even  
more so since the flu has been found in some flocks of chickens in  
Egypt and the army has been going around removing household flocks of  
birds.  Most of what you read about bird flu is pretty incendiary and  
designed to enhance distribution of  papers, but this bulletin from  
The American Council on Science and Health is excellent. It clearly  
lays out the issues and risks without trying to incite panic.  They  
have a site for the download of a pdf version of the report (which  
can be ordered for $5 but isn't practical to order here) but I  
couldn't get the download to work.

Still, I'd recommend reading the report on the site. One of the  
things that it notes is that this is a viral infection of water fowl  
and not of birds in general. The WNV affected raptors (owls, hawks,  
eagles, and crows) in significant numbers but not many other birds as  
well. So we probably don't have to look at those robins and house  
sparrows with suspicion.

Maryanne
Cairo

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