Saturday, February 25, 2006
I've got Good News and Bad News
Bird Flu has been confirmed in a dead swan in Croatia. The French have confirmed bird flu on a turkey farm.
I speak almost weekly with my fiance who lives sometimes in Bosnia, sometimes in Croatia, and he told me yesterday that the results were not in on the swans from Jajce, so it's not definate that they have bird flu in BiH. Probably they do though, because birds do not have borders.
The Bad News
You would not know it from the front page picture in Slobna Dalmacija, but there is no Mad Cow disease in Croatia.
The Good News
The Rest of the Story
I'm not sure I'd class most Balkans countries as high risk areas for BSE in any case because the more objectionable methods of feeding and raising animals have not become common in most of these countries. The closer one remains to the natural conditions of the animal in question in a natural setting, the safer you are from diseases showing up. Cattle were meant to eat grass, not grains, not bones, not blood. Cattle who ate such things long ago were considered to suffer from 'depraved appetite'
NPR coverage on Ratko Mladic....
EU and Serbia Spar over Accused War Criminal Mladic
I speak almost weekly with my fiance who lives sometimes in Bosnia, sometimes in Croatia, and he told me yesterday that the results were not in on the swans from Jajce, so it's not definate that they have bird flu in BiH. Probably they do though, because birds do not have borders.
The Bad News
You would not know it from the front page picture in Slobna Dalmacija, but there is no Mad Cow disease in Croatia.
The Good News
The Rest of the Story
I'm not sure I'd class most Balkans countries as high risk areas for BSE in any case because the more objectionable methods of feeding and raising animals have not become common in most of these countries. The closer one remains to the natural conditions of the animal in question in a natural setting, the safer you are from diseases showing up. Cattle were meant to eat grass, not grains, not bones, not blood. Cattle who ate such things long ago were considered to suffer from 'depraved appetite'
NPR coverage on Ratko Mladic....
EU and Serbia Spar over Accused War Criminal Mladic
# posted by Katja R. @ 8:23 AM 
