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To: tejek who wrote (288725)	5/20/2006 11:36:58 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 1573841

Those that are resistant should be kept around. How long does it take before you know if they are resistant? Does anyone know? Well, if there are sick birds, then the ones who survive are resistant. I do think there may have to be measures taken with domestic flocks. Domestic flocks are not quite like wild birds, they are very closely interbred and so disease spreads quickly in the population and to other domestic flocks. The wild birds however, are too numerous and dispersed to vaccinate, so you have the equivalent of a pox-party. That's the old custom of bringing all the children of a neighborhood together when the first of the age got chicken pox. They would all get sick, it would disrupt school and whatever for a week or two, and then they were all immune. Vaccine may be a better alternative for the well known and managed humans, but the flu-party is a better way to get the wild birds into a stable immune condition. TP