> 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
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Nevada, USA
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