>>>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.
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>As I understand it this was not even the virulent strain!
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>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10128209/
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>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?
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>Let's hope it's not the same kind of accurate testing as this:
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>"Currently, 87 percent of positives are reversed on follow-up."
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>http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_116.html
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>;)

My brother went through that. He used to eat poppy seed bagels - the ones black with poppy seeds, and he did fail a drug test. He tested positive for morphine. Scared the hell out of him until he went to the doctor to find out what was going on, and was told about the poppy seeds.

In a similar vein, when I took in a stray cat, he was tested for FIV (feline immunodeficiency virus) and he tested positive. The vet was all for putting him down, but I heard from a number of cat rescue people that the test is not definitive, and that to be absolutely sure, a DNA test should be done. I had that done and he turned out to be clean. The first test tested for antibodies, not actually for the virus itself. The assumption is that if the antibodies are there, so must be the virus. Well, even the vet admits the antibodies can get there in a transfer from another cat in a fight, or even if the cat once had FIV and fought it off which apparently is not unheard of. The DNA test tests for the virus itself.

Never trust just a single test if it's about something important.