Well there are really several issues here:
- first I am not pleased
*at all* with the way this was handled. It isn't bird flue that is the issue, it is that it was a desease and it was handled appallingly. We are actually lucky that the flue is at this point otherwise if it were anything else, it would have been a full blown epidemic.
- they hid it. There is no other word for it. I certainly do not see it. IMO this is the worst thing to do (the reason was the EU, that's not hard to guess). The information is non existant - this can lead to panic actually since we don't really know how bad it was (hopefully it's being taken care of but we all know how easily people panic; the info I found seems to point to the fact they got the situation under control now).
A co-worker said it was in another paper day before yesterday and it said that ambassadors of some of Romania's neighboring countries are/were asking from their home bases strict measures on the borders. He also told me that apparently the govt claims they managed to intercept 15 tons of infected chicken before it hit the stores (I found this later on the web as well), and they say that's it (but who'd believe them now?). That article also said that culled (is that the right verb?) chicken was left to rot on the sides of the roads with no protection at all.
Yes, of course
Lestat is right about cases so far, but I've spoken to a friend who's a molecular biologist and she told me this kind of gross negligence greatly increases chances of mutation of some kind. And like I've mentioned
this time it will I hope be harmless but what if it was some other desease?
BTW Ah thanks for the stars explanation, I couldn't figure it out. I thought it was a cigarette
