>>The FDA just banned the import of ducks from British Columbia due to one duck there having the bird flu. I hope we get ducks from someplace else too! :o) I wonder where all the ducks in the U.S. end up? Do we send ours to Canada? :o)
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>I don't know, but I see geese from the Great White North all the time here. Does the bird flu only impact domstic, or are wild fowl affect also? No way they can contain migration patterns.

As I understand it this was not even the virulent strain!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10128209/

65,000 ducks were slaughtered in BC as a result of one positive test! I'm not comfortable with that. If a child has the plague, do we drop 65,000 people in a pit?

Let's hope it's not the same kind of accurate testing as this:

"Currently, 87 percent of positives are reversed on follow-up."

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_116.html

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