"It makes me feel ill to think of scientists advocating this kind of thing
in a highly popular journal without thinking of the consequences of public
opinion."
I must have missed something. What were these scientists advocating?
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Sanderson
Sent: Thursday, 7 July 2005 11:08
To: Birding-aus (E-mail)
Subject: migratory birds and avian flu
Even if these birds were migratory waders that visit Australia, I fail to
see how they could make an 8000 km+ flight while sick with the flu? It
makes me feel ill to think of scientists advocating this kind of thing in a
highly popular journal without thinking of the consequences of public
opinion. Incidentally, AQIS takes blood samples of waders up here to test
for any signs of infection and to the best of my knowledge have never found
anything at all.
Regards,
Chris
Broome, WA
On 7/7/05, Andrew Taylor <> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:07:16AM +1000, John Leonard wrote:
> > I have heard from another source that the dead birds were Bar-headed
> > Geese. But whether any of the other birds were species which migrate
> > to Australia, or whether these were infected is not stated. Nor is
any
> > information about the different species different flight paths
> > given
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