We have another kind of flu in my country.

@marguicha (230365)
Chile
April 3, 2023 6:17pm CST
Lately news have been talking a lot about avian flu and after all of us were terrified by the covid it seems that we will start a new way of freaking out. Yesterday Claudia started changing the way she feeds her 7 hens. It seems that birds and doves help themselves with part of it. When she talked to me about that, I remembered that Luna is still eating late at night. But there are 2 pigeons who come early to her dish. I don´t like them because they use their claws to get what they want and throw out of the dish part of Luna´s food on the terrace floor. So now I´m starting to feed Luna late at night, when all sorts of birds are asleep. And I will close the terrace with plastic for the winter. Then Luna will not have to share her food with any bird full of ailments
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@LadyDuck (502812)
• Italy
4 Apr 23
Avian flu is present in most countries right now.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
4 Apr 23
It seems so. But we can try to control it.
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@LadyDuck (502812)
• Italy
5 Apr 23
@marguicha This is the reason why eggs are so expensive in Europe now. They killed millions of hens to stop the avian flu. Now we have to wait until the young hens start giving eggs.
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@LadyDuck (502812)
• Italy
5 Apr 23
@marguicha They have found a few swans sick in the lakes here around.
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@rakski (156709)
• Philippines
4 Apr 23
oh my, I hope it will not be like covid
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
4 Apr 23
One never knows.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
4 Apr 23
@rakski I will not let Luna share her food with birds, no matter how healthy they look.
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@rakski (156709)
• Philippines
4 Apr 23
@marguicha unless it already spread I hope not
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@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
4 Apr 23
It seems we have more influenza A cases in my country. However, I don't really know whether it is the real influenza A or just the Covid. I don't really care about it and frankly I am not afraid of it. Compare to the crazy past three years, at least right now the life is back to normal and this is the best. I don't want those crazy pandemic life. I had a fever last week. I don't know whether I had Covid or a flu since I don't have any self-kits. Now I have a cough and I think I shall get better soon.
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@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
5 Apr 23
@marguicha You can not imagine last December quite a lot of people were sick and got Covid here no matter they were got the vaccinations or not.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
5 Apr 23
@youless Vaccines will not stop anyone from getting the covid. But it is not as lethal.
@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
4 Apr 23
I had covid last year but I had all my vaccines and I just stayed home.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
4 Apr 23
Let’s hope it’s not as bad as covid.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
4 Apr 23
We have to be prepared for it.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
4 Apr 23
@RubyHawk We are not having bird feeders near the house. And that goes, in my case, for Luna´s dishes. Two years ago I accepted the vaccines for the covid as soon as they were available. For me it did not matter if I believed whether it would help or not. It was not a question of faith. I wanted to live. Last year I had covid with the 5 vaccines on and I did not need a doctor although I was not feeling too well for over a week.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
4 Apr 23
@marguicha How do we prepare?
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@Adie04 (17405)
4 Apr 23
The emergence of new variant of diseases makes me want to keep wearing face mask. Even a simple sneeze scares me.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
4 Apr 23
I wear a mask if I have to ride in an Uber.
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@Adie04 (17405)
5 Apr 23
@marguicha Maybe it's my practices to wear mask everytime I go out from the house since even before pandemic started, I have no problem wearing those in public. Last time before pandemic, haze were all around.
@leighnyork (1872)
4 Apr 23
There is something happening that we do not really understand. How come they are just following each other. First the corona and now this?
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
4 Apr 23
THey are different
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4 Apr 23
@marguicha I just pray they get everything under control.
@allen0187 (59827)
• Philippines
6 Apr 23
There was a big bird flu scare here in the country back in the day. It was during the same time when there were a lot of bird flu cases in other Asian countries.
@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
4 Apr 23
Oh yes poor Luna..that bird flu is so catching
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
4 Apr 23
She will have to eat at night.
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@RasmaSandra (98128)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
4 Apr 23
I know what you mean, Avian flu is a dangerous thing and I hope it does not spread all over,
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
4 Apr 23
We have to be aware of the many ailments and pandemias around us. When the covid vaccine appeared, I put out my arm. So when the covid came near me, I just had a mild one.
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@JudyEv (382542)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Apr 23
Vince seems to have contracted a bad cold at the moment. I hope he recovers quickly.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
4 Apr 23
We are all used to colds. But still it is not nice.
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4 Apr 23
it may be alarming also
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
4 Apr 23
It is.
@LindaOHio (222806)
• United States
20 Apr 23
That's a good idea. Thousands of chickens have been executed due to the flu here in this country.