I am close to a couple positive collection sites, so yes worried and taking precautions.
With all the bad stuff going on around us...I found a positive! Yay!
I have been looking information pertaining to songbirds, woodpeckers and rodents. I found this-
"Here, we examined small, wild birds (songbirds, woodpeckers, etc.) and mammals in Iowa, one of the regions hit hardest by the 2015 avian influenza epizootic, to determine whether these animals carry AIV. .... These results suggest that even though influenza A viruses were present on the Iowa landscape at the time of our sampling, small, wild birds and rodents were unlikely to be frequent bridge hosts."
Now I realized unlikely does not mean the same as impossible, but I still like the was that sounds. Yes I'll still take precautions!
Here's the link Evaluating the role of wild songbirds or rodents in spreading avian influenza
With all the bad stuff going on around us...I found a positive! Yay!
I have been looking information pertaining to songbirds, woodpeckers and rodents. I found this-
"Here, we examined small, wild birds (songbirds, woodpeckers, etc.) and mammals in Iowa, one of the regions hit hardest by the 2015 avian influenza epizootic, to determine whether these animals carry AIV. .... These results suggest that even though influenza A viruses were present on the Iowa landscape at the time of our sampling, small, wild birds and rodents were unlikely to be frequent bridge hosts."
Now I realized unlikely does not mean the same as impossible, but I still like the was that sounds. Yes I'll still take precautions!
Here's the link Evaluating the role of wild songbirds or rodents in spreading avian influenza