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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Bernard Matthews farm in Suffolk has found that over 1000 turkeys have died. The reason is defra has found that a form of H5N1 bird flu has been found at one of the companies sites.

Cherskiy · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject:

Has DEFRA actually confirmed its H5N1? There are lots of different strains, all of which can be called "Avian Flu".
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Oh no we're all going to dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! *runs away and hides*

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SantaFefan · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:03 pm Post subject:

Maybe his Turkeys would rather die from flu than being hit with baseball bats by some of his workers... for "fun"......

yes I'm bitter.

and, to make it worse, his farm of evil is only 30 miles from me!
But according to the government, we don't have to panic.

and,... we have Turkey on the menu tomorrow.....

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

SantaFefan · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject:

I was referring to the incident a few months back whereby some of his employees thought it would be fun to hurl live Turkeys in the air and wack them with a bat - like playing baseball.
Problem for them was it was caught on camera..

Low life scum...

Cherskiy · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject:

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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject:

It's been confirmed as H5N1
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SantaFefan · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject:

Great............if I peg out, I'll let you know.

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

No turkeys have gone into the food chain. I havn't seen Bernard Matthew being interviewed on the TV.

Cherskiy · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:29 am Post subject:

I almost laughed at the report that the carcasses had to be transported from Suffolk to Staffordshire to be incinerated. It obviously makes sense to cart infected dead birds halfway across the country to get rid of them....
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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

It is a laugh the sealed tanks are being moved 200 miles away after being gased at the Bernard Matthews farm.

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Apparently for every turkey which is killed Bernard Matthews foods will get £3 to £4 each, and Matthews has declined to come out of his Mansion to do any interviews. I suppose he gets a refund on the Turkeys and that will go towards his other £300 Million hes worth.

I wonder how he will be able to produce turkeys now?

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

http://www.bernardmatthews.com/

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

More cases of the potentially-dead H5N1 strain of bird flu have been found at the turkey farm in Suffolk where 160,000 birds were culled earlier this week.

Apparently tests on birds slaughtered in three other buildings near the original shed at a Bernard Matthews farm in Holton, Suffolk, last week showed strains of the virus.

The turkeys at the farm were housed in 22 sheds - Sky News understands that four of these were affected by H5N1.

It is also being suggested that avian flu may have arrived in the UK with poultry products imported from Hungary.

The results of the tests were confirmed to Sky News by Fred Landeg, deputy chief vet for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Dr Lendeg said the Suffolk virus and that found in wild geese in Hungary last month may be identical.

A newspaper is claiming that a consignment of turkey meat arrived at the site shortly before the outbreak.

Defra scientists are checking food processing arrangements at a Bernard Matthews-owned plant in Hungary in an effort to trace the source of the deadly bug.

Bernard Matthews, which co-operating with the inquiry, has volunteered to cease trade movements between the UK and Hungary.

The investigation is including arrangements at a food processing plant next to the turkey farm where the birds were slaughtered.

Dr Landeg said: "Our investigations have shown that one possible route of infection is poultry product imported from Hungary.

"It is important that this is investigated thoroughly, along with all the other possible routes."

The Observer newspaper is to report claims that a consignment of dead turkeys travelled by lorry from the Hungarian plant and arrived in the UK a few days before 27 January.

That was the date when farm workers began to notice the first signs of illness in the turkey chicks at the Suffolk farm.

A spokesman for Bernard Matthews had told the paper that its two operations were connected only in terms of ownership.

"All our birds are British. The fact that we have a Hungarian operation is immaterial. It is very unlikely. It's a complete mystery to us. We have the highest biosafety standards of anyone.

"We are waiting for Defra to finish its investigations and they will tell us the likely cause."

Ella Sailyour · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain