But weren't we told Pigeons don't carry BF? 
PIGEONS FACE FLU SLAUGHTER
By GEOFF EARLE
May 15, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - Some 100,000 New York pigeons could find their goose cooked if the bird flu gets here - for they'd have to be trapped and killed.
State pathologist Ward Stone said he personally likes pigeons, but, "If you find something that is a significant threat to human health and mortality is involved, then you're going to take some control action."
He assures pigeon fanciers that if the city's flocks were euthanized, "The pigeons will come right back and do what they did before."
With tens of thousands of chickens killed since the avian flu infected flocks in Asia and Europe, state health officials are monitoring pigeons and other wild birds in each borough.
One good sign: Paris and Rome's ubiquitous pigeons show no sign of having contracted the deadly disease.
PIGEONS FACE FLU SLAUGHTER
By GEOFF EARLE
May 15, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - Some 100,000 New York pigeons could find their goose cooked if the bird flu gets here - for they'd have to be trapped and killed.
State pathologist Ward Stone said he personally likes pigeons, but, "If you find something that is a significant threat to human health and mortality is involved, then you're going to take some control action."
He assures pigeon fanciers that if the city's flocks were euthanized, "The pigeons will come right back and do what they did before."
With tens of thousands of chickens killed since the avian flu infected flocks in Asia and Europe, state health officials are monitoring pigeons and other wild birds in each borough.
One good sign: Paris and Rome's ubiquitous pigeons show no sign of having contracted the deadly disease.
