By GI Korea on January 27th, 2011 at 1:00 pm

Picture of the Day: Avian Quarantine

Spectacled teals are startled Tuesday during an air quarantine operation aimed at preventing the spread of avian influenza. The operation was conducted at Gocheonam Reservoir in South Jeolla Province.

Via KBS Global.

• kushibo
  8:53 am on January 27th, 2011 1

  But have they found any infected English teachers? The real fun will come when they discover aivan-positive English teachers.

• Teadrinker
  9:07 am on January 27th, 2011 2

  Oh, they will find some dead birds for sure…Flying over wild animals in a helicopter, what were they thinking?

• setnaffa
  11:07 am on January 27th, 2011 3

  They are spraying the birds, to kill them…

• ChickenHead
  11:13 am on January 27th, 2011 4

  Kushibo…

  Just wait until an English teacher comes down with chirpies. The Korean public will go wild if they find a foreigner is spreading a canarial disease. That would be a real birden on society and would cheepen the value of foreign teachers.

• Zilchy
  11:41 am on January 27th, 2011 5

  "Oh, they will find some dead birds for sure…Flying over wild animals in a helicopter, what were they thinking?"

  You're missing the point. If the helicopter is airborn long enough, bombarding the flying chickens will eliminate the spread of the virus.

  Oh, chickens can't fly! They can fly in S. Korea. I've been there, and the natives told me it was so.

• Zilchy
  11:44 am on January 27th, 2011 6

  In theory, ChickenHead should be an expert on this subject.

• ChickenHead
  12:09 pm on January 27th, 2011 7

  I have been known to spray on a bird or two.

• JoeC
  1:36 pm on January 27th, 2011 8

  With avian flu and hoof and mouth disease occurring here, Koreans aren't as paranoid as they were a few years ago.

  I just returned from a Southeast Asian country and didn't notice any disinfectant soaked mats to walk across at Incheon Airport.

  Also even though Korea has these active cases, the airport in the other country didn't require travelers from Korea to walk across disinfectant mats either.

  There was one elderly Korean man on the return flight with a wretched cough and one of those cotton masks strapped to his ears. It was almost impossible to get far enough away from him. I suspect if he was a non-Korean they would have quarantined him. But he was allowed to pass.

• Teadrinker
  2:30 pm on January 27th, 2011 9

  "Also even though Korea has these active cases, the airport in the other country didn’t require travelers from Korea to walk across disinfectant mats either."

  Yes, I've just returned from a trip abroad. Nobody recoiled in horror when I told them I've eaten Korean beef.

• Leon LaPorte
  2:35 pm on January 27th, 2011 10

  It is a well known fact that kimchi cures and kills avian flu and FMD.

• Teadrinker
  3:12 pm on January 27th, 2011 11

  #10,

  Notice all the scientific research about kimchi and cancer? Too bad a diet high in salt increases the chances of getting stomach cancer. Koreans and Japanese have some of the highest numbers of stomach cancers in the world because of their diet of pickled vegetables. Stomach cancer used to be very common in the West when meat and wish were preserved in brine. It's much less so now that we have refrigerators.

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