2006-08-22 10:39:35 · 13 answers · asked by Born Again 3 in Pets ➔ Birds
Yes.
2006-08-22 10:44:35 · answer #1 · answered by Brian L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bird flu won't strike your pet bird. The fear with bird flu is not about birds. It's a sick bird (most probably a chicken or other wild bird) will come into contact with a HUMAN with the FLU and thus begin a strain of a SUPERFLU. Then this human will pass it on and on and on to thousands of others, until there is a 'cure' and a 'vaccine' for this currently unknown strain. Folks will miss work, shutting down everything and many will die. This is the bird flu fear, not that your pet budgie will get sick.
2006-08-23 02:55:38 · answer #2 · answered by WriterMom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the avian flu can infect your pet bird. Luckily, you probably don't live in the kind of conditions that place you at a high risk. After farm birds, who walk in, and peck at seed that comes in contact with, each other's droppings, the next highest risk group is the wild bird flock; after that, open aviaries (aviaries that allow new birds to join their numbers while the flu is a risk factor) are at risk.
As long as you keep your bird indoors (and away from open screens, where it may incidentally encounter an infected wild bird, unlikely as it may be); and you don't introduce new birds into your home; and you stop trusting the source of pet store birds enough not to pet them until the threat is gone; you -- and I -- probably have nothing to worry about.
PS - Earlier last century, a similar flu (bird and pig) wiped out more of the human US population in a year than aids has in the last 10 years. It was called "the great influenza".
2006-08-22 12:56:56 · answer #3 · answered by Em 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course if its a bird flu it can go to any species especially birds
2006-08-22 10:45:06 · answer #4 · answered by SilentEyes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course a bird is a bird unless you are talking about the female type
2006-08-22 10:43:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your pet bird is kept inside then no, but if you let him fly around outside he could pick it up.
2006-08-22 10:49:02 · answer #6 · answered by Grace H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only if ur bird has been in contact with wild birds outside
2006-08-23 07:41:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, inside pets or outside pet's .
2006-08-23 06:49:40 · answer #8 · answered by jay c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, it even infects and/or kills other species including people
2006-08-22 11:52:05 · answer #9 · answered by sassy_kat1ooo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it will be able to, just no cases reported just yet
2006-08-22 10:44:09 · answer #10 · answered by SuzieQ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋