00:00It's highly unlikely that you would catch bird flu from a wild bird, however, for an
00:20abundance of caution, we'd certainly recommend not approaching or handling a dead bird that
00:27you might find. As far as we know, there are no cases of people actually catching bird
00:37flu from wild birds yet in North America. In terms of bird feeders, the general recommendation
00:50is there's no need to stop feeding because songbirds contract the disease less easily
00:57and pass it on less easily. Unless, for example, you also keep poultry, in which case there
01:09is some possibility of bird flu making it from a songbird to chickens. In terms of dealing
01:20with feeders, the general recommendation is that there shouldn't be a problem with feeding
01:25birds. But if you want to be particularly cautious, you can look on the CDC website
01:39and you'll be able to see where outbreaks or current data is on outbreaks of bird flu.
01:45Yeah, so it does seem to affect different birds in different ways, and part of that is behavioral
01:55and part of that is to do with the bird's physiology. So in the case of, for example,
02:03waterfowl, waterfowl seem to easily pick up the disease and shed it. Although mortality
02:14amongst waterfowl is slightly lower than, for example, amongst poultry that can often
02:19have close to 100% mortality. So that's one of the big concerns is that poultry are being
02:25heavily affected by bird flu.
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