I hope there won't be a knee-jerk reaction to the vague possibility of avian flu infecting humans, resulting in a debacle like the foot-and-mouth crisis.
Foot and mouth led to the deaths of thousands of animals, many of them pet goats and sheep. It would be a tragedy if the same thing happened to pet birds.
-Sylvia Harwood, Hove
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