Wild birds as human food - safety

[AlaskaDenise]

Is it safe to eat a wild bird which may have been in an infected area?

Have there been any documented cases of BF caught directly from wild birds?

these subjects have come up in my recently conversatinos with people from within BF prevention industry.

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[Mellie]

Re: Wild birds as human food - safety

Fletchers in Azerbaijan and Indonesian(?) outbreaks;

Dad who went hunting and his kids got H5N1??? wasn't there a report in Jan or Feb somewhere?

Official? I don't know.

 

[Mellie]

Re: Wild birds as human food - safety

Alaska Denise,

Have you asked around or heard any more on this? Most of us are focused on human to human pandemic here, but these kinds of questions are more on the minds of sportspeople, hunters, fishermen that fish in heavily populated waterways (bird feces), and others. I drive by and walk around our marshes with a whole different awareness these days. I look at the merganzers and even the hawks and eagles differently than before.

These questions also come up among the guys that work for Dept of Agriculture who would be called on to oversee culling if it shows up in domestic flocks. They were called on for the Exotic Newcastle's outbreak several years ago. The virus in those cases was thought to be spread by cocks on the illegal cockfighting circuit.

It especially comes up among the Dept of Interior guys and gals who monitor birds on the nation's waterways and monitor the humans hunting those birds... Ah for the innocence of a few years ago!