Articles > Newspapers > International Newspapers, Local Markets A-Lh > Daily Post (Liverpool, England) articles > March 2006

Article: Don't panic over bird flu; RSPB MESSAGE AS HYSTERIA GRIPS.(News)

Article from:
Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Article date:
March 14, 2006
Copyright

Byline: By ROB DAVIES

NORTH Wales RSPB bosses are being inundated with calls from people in a flap over bird flu.

Charity officials said two worried owners even tried to hand in their pet birds, fearful they might pass on the disease.

Alan Davies, the RSPB's Conwy nature reserve site manager said the reaction to avian flu was "hysterical" and people were panicking unnecessarily.

Mr Davies said he received several calls a day, mainly from people seeking advice.

"There have been a huge variety of calls," he said. "A lady from Caernarfon phoned to say she had a pigeon on her win-dowsill which didn't look very well, and she ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

Article: Bird flu: Be vigilant but keep it in perspective, ...
Lynn News/Norfolk Citizen (King's Lynn, England);  February 5, 2007 ;     623 words ... ... is business as usual at two RSPB sites in West Norfolk, despite the bird flu outbreak over the Suffolk border ... well as vigilant visitors. RSPB spokesman Ciaran Nelson told ... in the number of potential bird flu carriers seen at West Norfolk ...

Article: BUDGIES DUMPED IN BIRD FLU WORRY; EXCLUSIVE Stay ...
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  March 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... own culls of wild birds. RSPB spokesman Andrei Farrar ... help prevent the spread of bird flu. "But we are getting ... disinformation." The RSPB's plea comes after a ... owners panicking about bird flu. Budgies, parrots, geese ...

Article: RSPB officials monitor UK wildlife reserves
Yorkshire Post;  February 6, 2007 ;     458 words ... ... try to trace the source of the bird flu found at a poultry farm. RSPB officials said staff were maintaining ... closest to the outbreak of bird flu at the Bernard Matthews farm ... were being mounted at all 200 RSPB reserves in Britain - around ...

Article: WALES: Reserves on high alert for bird flu; Checks ...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  February 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... alert yesterday as deadly bird flu edged ever closer to Britain ... to search for traces of bird flu, experts in North Wales ... handling any suspected cases of bird flu were announced by the Welsh ... in France. And, as the RSPB said birds who flock around ...

Article: Keep feeding birds, says RSPB Worry that avian flu fears ...
Belfast Telegraph;  October 27, 2005 ;     541 words ...In the run up to the RSPB's annual garden bird feeding ... them to find food.However, the RSPB recognises public concern about bird flu and its potential risk, but ... washing feeders.Mark Avery, the RSPB's director of Conservation ...

Article: Deadly strain of bird flu confirmed on Suffolk ...
Belfast Telegraph;  November 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the Protection of Birds (RSPB) said that wild birds ... the February outbreak of bird flu at a turkey farm run by ... said Mark Avery, the RSPB's conservation director ... wild birds were carrying bird flu, their corpses would have ...

Article: Nation safe from bird flu pandemic until autumn
The Scotsman;  January 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Glasgow University, said that as bird flu did not arrive in the UK last ... that Britain should not see bird flu for months, unless an infected ... direction and potentially bring bird flu to Britain, but the country ... tip of the iceberg but the RSPB said the number of birds ...

Article: BIRD FLU: EVEN EXPERTS SPLIT.(News)
Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales);  October 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... within a matter of days'. RSPB Cymru has asked people ... this winter because of the bird flu scare. The organisation ... Johnson, spokeswoman for RSPB Cymru, said: 'People ... birds in their gardens and bird flu. 'Hopefully it won ...

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!

Find articles, research, and archives