The outbreak of avian flu via chickens on a North Wales small holding, with two workers ill, is dangerously close to Rhuthun. It’s on Hiraethog, between Pentre-Llyn-Cymmer and Llanfihangel-Glyn-Myfyr. Llanfihangel’s only some 12 miles away, as the hen would fly, actually on the very western fringes of Coedwig Clocaenog Forest. Llanfihangel looks to Rhuthun for its basic services and secondary schooling.
Yet there seems little to get worried about at the moment, with only a half-mile exclusion zone and a less virulent strain. It all seems far enough away. We trust. Yet, when you have Assembly members advising us not to panic, your first reaction is to do just that. "I am appealing to all residents in Corwen and nearby to behave calmly…”
Even in adversity, we need to keep perspective. The trawl for news on the radio revealed an interview with Wales’ government’s deputy medical officer. He was comparing the likelihood of farm workers in proximity contracting flu with everyone else. Reassuringly, unlike those on a farm, most of us only ever get close to ready-to-eat chickens. Said the officer, “Most of the chickens I eat are dead”.
Most?
Yet there seems little to get worried about at the moment, with only a half-mile exclusion zone and a less virulent strain. It all seems far enough away. We trust. Yet, when you have Assembly members advising us not to panic, your first reaction is to do just that. "I am appealing to all residents in Corwen and nearby to behave calmly…”
Even in adversity, we need to keep perspective. The trawl for news on the radio revealed an interview with Wales’ government’s deputy medical officer. He was comparing the likelihood of farm workers in proximity contracting flu with everyone else. Reassuringly, unlike those on a farm, most of us only ever get close to ready-to-eat chickens. Said the officer, “Most of the chickens I eat are dead”.
Most?
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