Comments on: Complex Bird Flu Testing summary http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/complex-bird-flu-testing-summary/ (in Alaska's Unorganized Borough along Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak Rivers) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:22:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Updates on bird flu results, USA AK (HEDDS) « Grassroots Science http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/complex-bird-flu-testing-summary/#comment-30814 Updates on bird flu results, USA AK (HEDDS) « Grassroots Science Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:39:39 +0000 http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/complex-bird-flu-testing-summary/#comment-30814 [...] Complex Bird Flu Testing summary Dirty Jobs in Bethel, goose butts Sampling Bird Cloaca National HPAI Early Detection Data System (HEDDS) Update Monday, Feb 18, 2008 This email contains text only. To view map and for easy-to-read formatting, go to: http://wildlifedisease.nbii.gov/documents/National HPAI Early Detection Data System (HEDDS) Sample Totals Update Feb 18 2008.pdf (pdf file) [...] [...] Complex Bird Flu Testing summary Dirty Jobs in Bethel, goose butts Sampling Bird Cloaca National HPAI Early Detection Data System (HEDDS) Update Monday, Feb 18, 2008 This email contains text only. To view map and for easy-to-read formatting, go to: http://wildlifedisease.nbii.gov/documents/National HPAI Early Detection Data System (HEDDS) Sample Totals Update Feb 18 2008.pdf (pdf file) [...]

]]> By: Pam http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/complex-bird-flu-testing-summary/#comment-128 Pam Sun, 04 Jun 2006 03:56:07 +0000 http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/complex-bird-flu-testing-summary/#comment-128 Now I should double-check how we are sending samples. However, if the samples are properly wrapped and kept cool/frozen there shouldn't be problems. <blockquote>Won't handle dead birds Norway's postal service is now refusing to send dead birds destined to be checked by authorities for Avian Flu. Up until now Posten has sent dead birds for testing to the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, but now the organization has instituted a policy change, newspaper VG reports. ... The FSA has previously asked the public to send in birds as normal parcel post and, despite calling the risk of infection extremely remote, the organization accepts that this practice is now a thing of the past. ... Now the FSA will investigate the real dangers involved with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and the National Veterinary Institute. "We hope that this effort will result in Posten sending these dead birds. For the time being such packages with birds must be shipped with special transport," said senior FSA adviser Eivind Liven.</blockquote> http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1338964.ece Now I should double-check how we are sending samples. However, if the samples are properly wrapped and kept cool/frozen there shouldn’t be problems.

Won’t handle dead birds
Norway’s postal service is now refusing to send dead birds destined to be checked by authorities for Avian Flu.

Up until now Posten has sent dead birds for testing to the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, but now the organization has instituted a policy change, newspaper VG reports.
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The FSA has previously asked the public to send in birds as normal parcel post and, despite calling the risk of infection extremely remote, the organization accepts that this practice is now a thing of the past.
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Now the FSA will investigate the real dangers involved with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and the National Veterinary Institute.

“We hope that this effort will result in Posten sending these dead birds. For the time being such packages with birds must be shipped with special transport,” said senior FSA adviser Eivind Liven.

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1338964.ece

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