All very good points Marlene! The best thing to do is EVERYTHING you can do. I thing the Tamiflu is worth a try, while trying to breed in a resistance.
Eric
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "Marlene Johnson" <slatehouse@...> wrote:
>
>
> > Good advice Cathryn. Just walking through a contaminated farm you could
> pick some of the dander that carries it up and bring it home on your
> shoes,cloths or your hair, Don't go visit a contaminated farm.
>
> here is a pretty good link:
> http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/avian/mareks2.pdf
>
> honestly, I agree it would be a good idea to stay away from a known
> contaminated place, but what about the unknown ones, the wind etc. This
> sounds like one of those diseases that cannot be prevented just by taking a
> few safety precautions. For example, I work as a home health nurse, so I
> go from home to home, so do all my co-workers, then the people I go to also
> have friends and family in and out of the home, so lots of traffic, many
> people have backyard flocks here, including my co-workers, nobody has any
> way of knowing who carries what around on their clothes, shoes or hair, as
> people get in and out of their cars they contaminate their cars, so even if
> one changes clothes they will be immediately contaminated as soon as one
> gets back into their car. That's why so many contagious diseases that
> survive well in the environment cannot be controlled unless there is an
> effective vaccine and widespread vaccination of the susceptible population.
> Where I live for example we get a lot of high winds and also a lot of dust
> devils (like mini tornadoes), dirt gets picked up and deposited far away
> when it comes down somewhere.
> Does anybody know if Mareks can be treated with Tamiflu? I know they have
> good success using that with puppies that have Parvo, so maybe it would be
> feasable for small flock owners to use Tamiflu?
>
>
>
> Marlene
> Blog: http://zaltanaanatolians.blogspot.com/ and
> http://zaltanachickens.blogspot.com/
> Nevada, USA
>
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