Nigeria: Villagers Arrested for Eating Carcasses of Bird Flu Chickens

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Nigeria: Villagers Arrested for Eating Carcasses of Bird Flu Chickens

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Daily Trust (Abuja)

April 6, 2006
Posted to the web April 6, 2006


Starving villagers in Jos, Plateau state, who exhumed and ate the carcasses of bird-flu infected chickens were arrested by the police, government officials said yesterday.

The Chairman, Sub-committee on Sanitation and Transportation of the Plateau State Bird Flu Committee, Mr Joseph Pate, expressed shock that some villagers of Dong in Jos North local government area, had gone to the dump site to exhume the infected birds to form part of their meals.

Pate said the infected birds were from a farm in Jos and had been buried on Monday after they were conf-irmed to have died of the flu.

The chairman said the action of the people has exposed them and others to the deadly virus, noting that it could lead to death.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Isa Adejoh, was not available to comment on the arrests.

An official of the Ministry of Health, Mr Iliya Azi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the villagers' action was condemnable.

Azi said the consumers of the carcasses stand the risk of being infected because the cells in the dead chickens had the bird flu virus.

 

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Nigeria: Villagers Arrested for Eating Carcasses of Bird Flu Chickens

http://allafrica.com/stories/200604060230.html


Daily Trust (Abuja)

April 6, 2006
Posted to the web April 6, 2006


Starving villagers in Jos, Plateau state, who exhumed and ate the carcasses of bird-flu infected chickens were arrested by the police, government officials said yesterday.

The Chairman, Sub-committee on Sanitation and Transportation of the Plateau State Bird Flu Committee, Mr Joseph Pate, expressed shock that some villagers of Dong in Jos North local government area, had gone to the dump site to exhume the infected birds to form part of their meals.

Pate said the infected birds were from a farm in Jos and had been buried on Monday after they were conf-irmed to have died of the flu.

The chairman said the action of the people has exposed them and others to the deadly virus, noting that it could lead to death.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Isa Adejoh, was not available to comment on the arrests.

An official of the Ministry of Health, Mr Iliya Azi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the villagers' action was condemnable.

Azi said the consumers of the carcasses stand the risk of being infected because the cells in the dead chickens had the bird flu virus.

"the villagers' action was condemnable"?

What a joke. They're starving and they see food. This will happen everywhere in the 3rd world.

This is a teachable moment. The war on bird flu's advance and evolution into pandemic is lost. It is not "may be lost". It IS LOST.

So, we each need to reflect on our own posture and prep approach as this finally reaches the cluster of cluster stage. All I'm doing is looking for efficient H2H transmission. That's the only missing piece here.

As a virulence bonus, Niman's tracking of the additional polymorphisms being included merely drives another nail into the coffin that's being constructed for humans as a whole.

If you disagree, I'm eager to hear why. This last year has shown that the disease progressed legitimately, responsibly, and fully. The next steps will be efficient H2H and pandemia. I now see the time schedule to be within view, whether it's 1 month or 12 months. The virus has proven it can live in mammals. Next will be natural progression into humans and the mammals who can easily infect humans.

All who fail to examine the leading edge developments of this virus are foolish and I expect will run a gauntlet at a time of the virus' choosing.

However, there are many who believe life is to be lived and enjoyed as it will end, one way or another, and who can accept death shortly without fear.

I personally cannot do that. I don't believe in source or reincarnation or higher being. I see life as needful of extension. My travelling companion saw the exact opposite. But she still moved away from the sick passenger next to us on the return flight. She's prudent in the moment; but she will do nothing to anticipate this pandemic.