Reasonable Rascal
08-21-09, 14:08
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/21/swine-flu-antivirals.html
Turkeys infected
On Friday, health officials in Chile reported swine flu has jumped to birds.
Chile's health ministry ordered two turkey farms outside the port city of Valparaiso to be quarantined after genetic tests confirmed sick birds showed a match with the subtype A H1N1 2009 strain.
"My understanding is that with the ones that were sick, it was a very mild disease," said Dr. Juan Lubroth, head of infectious diseases for the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome.
"It's significant in that we don't need to recommend any drastic measures, as far as culling the population of turkeys. Let them go through their illness and recover — seven to 10 days — and if they are sound and healthy, they could enter the food chain."
Andrea Campos, a veterinarian for the farms' owner, Sopraval SA, said the outbreak was limited to egg-laying birds, not those fattened to produce meat.
Turkeys infected
On Friday, health officials in Chile reported swine flu has jumped to birds.
Chile's health ministry ordered two turkey farms outside the port city of Valparaiso to be quarantined after genetic tests confirmed sick birds showed a match with the subtype A H1N1 2009 strain.
"My understanding is that with the ones that were sick, it was a very mild disease," said Dr. Juan Lubroth, head of infectious diseases for the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome.
"It's significant in that we don't need to recommend any drastic measures, as far as culling the population of turkeys. Let them go through their illness and recover — seven to 10 days — and if they are sound and healthy, they could enter the food chain."
Andrea Campos, a veterinarian for the farms' owner, Sopraval SA, said the outbreak was limited to egg-laying birds, not those fattened to produce meat.