Quarantined parrot dies of avian influenza in Great Britain
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Article Date: 22 Oct 2005 - 5:00 PDT
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A parrot that was imported from Surinam, South America, died in the UK of avian influenza (bird flu) while in quarantine. All pets in the UK have to spend some time in quarantine before entering the country. A Dept of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs confirmed that the bird died of bird flu while in quarantine.
The parrot had arrived in September, 2005. It is not yet known whether the parrot had the lethal H5N1 strain of the virus.
As the bird was in quarantine, the general population of farmed birds are still free of bird flu in the UK.
148 parrots and soft bills from Surinam were in quarantine alongside some birds from Taiwan. During their whole time in quarantine they were held in a biosecure quarantine unit. All the birds have been culled.
The UK has the strictest quarantine laws in the world for imported animals and pets. An official said this incident demonstrated the importance and effectiveness of the UK's quarantine laws.
All staff who had come into contact with the birds have been given antiviral treatment and are free of bird flu.
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Quarantined parrot dies of avian influenza in Great Britain
posted by Cristiana Senni on 22 Oct 2005 at 11:33 amDear Editors,
I would like to point out that that the statement that "All pets in the UK have to spend some time in quarantine before entering the country" is not correct as it applies only to birds imported from outside the EU.
EU Decision 2000/666/EC laying down the animal health requirements and the veterinary certification for the import of birds, other than poultry and the conditions for quarantine, applies to commercially imported birds from third countries. Pet birds traveling with their owner and zoo birds are exempted.
The trade of these birds among the EU Member States is quite substantial, and no further health controls have been established by the EU for the internal movements.
Quarantine for birds imported into the UK from other EU countries is not mandatory.
In this particular instance, the statements issued by DEFRA indicate that two different consignments, from Suriname and Taiwan, shared the same quarantine unit. This is in direct violation of the EU quarantine decision, establishing that: "‘quarantine centre’ means premises containing a number of units, which are operationa!ly and physically separated from each other and in which each unit contains only birds of the same consignment, with the same health status and being therefore one epidemiological unit; and within each unit of which the quarantine of imported birds is carried out on an ‘all-in, all-out’ basis; and which are separated from poultry holdings and other bird holdings by a reasonable distance, when taking into account the epidemiology of Newcastle disease and avian influenza as regards airborne spread".
Due to the shortcomings of the EU quarantine decision and the lack of implementation, the imports of wild birds pose a substantial risk of introducing diseases such as avian flu. The simplest and most logical way to avoid this risk is to ban the imports of wild birds in the EU.
Sincerely,
Cristiana Senni
World Parrot Trust
Death During Avian Flu Question
posted by Niki on 26 Mar 2006 at 12:13 amSuppose:
Avian flu has become a pandemic. You're in a quarantined house with two other people. You are not ill, but the two others are. They each have their own rooms. You are unable to get a doctor to come out (quarantine) and you are resorting to home remedies.
Now, suppose one of the two ill individuals dies.
What steps do you take to get the body out of your house, and to a 'safe' location. Safe meaning, where it won't infect others. Or, are you supposed to have a rotting body in your home until the quarantine ends?
I am asking seriously. This is something that I have been asked to find out by my boss, and I don't even know where to start looking.
Thanks
Niki
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