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Apparently we can all rest easy about the media reports of bird flu being detected in Rhode Island poultry.  Both FLA_MEDIC and Crof have posted on the issue, so I will just have you click on the links. 

But I decided, type-A personality that I am told I am, to personally take charrrge! (can you tell I am getting ready for football season?) and call the number listed in the WPRI-12 news story, as if I were a concerned Rhode Island poultry farmer and wanted to test my flocks.

Guess what I got?  A message!  An older woman's recorded voice proclaims that "the office hours are from 8:30 AM to 4PM, Monday through Friday."

Huh?  They knock off at four in the afternoon?  Good Lord, that is early!  And I guess no one is concerned about H whatever N whatever, since they do not refer to it on the outgoing message.

Guess we will have to wait until tomorrow to see if this is H5N2, H7N-whatever, or H9N-whatever.