{"id":44,"date":"2005-10-26T23:57:44","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T23:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2022-12-29T09:51:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T09:51:16","slug":"infected-bird-flu-man-arrives-on-french-soil-we-are-all-going-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/10\/26\/infected-bird-flu-man-arrives-on-french-soil-we-are-all-going-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Infected bird flu man arrives on French soil. We are all going to die!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"154\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/birdflu-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7781\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Virus Protection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p> This website is calling upon the Loch Ness coastguard to enforce a ban on throwing chickens into Loch Ness and to take action to prevent \u201cegg-baiting\u201d, a common activity amongst visiting monster hunters. <\/p><div id=\"lochn-3227435943\" class=\"lochn-content lochn-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3003812232025940\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3003812232025940\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An egg-baiter is a device constructed from wood, fishing line and lead shot. Several raw eggs in which small holes have been drilled are attached and the whole rig moored just off shore in the loch. The eggs float just below the service and slowly release their contents into the water, <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"116\" height=\"116\" src=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nochicken.jpg\" alt=\"No Raw Chickens in Loch Ness\" class=\"wp-image-7458\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">No Raw Chickens in Loch Ness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>attracting the plesiosaur and eel populations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally egg baiting presents no danger to Loch Ness or Nessie, her monster (although the lead shot has caused some concerns in the past) but the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/4377648.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">EU has just warned that raw eggs and chicken&nbsp;<\/a>may pass on fatal avian H5N1 flu to humans and it is already known that dinosaurs are closely related to their avian cousins (see below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are very worrying times at Loch Ness and so far the authorities appear to have behaved appallingly slowly.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website is calling upon the Loch Ness coastguard to enforce a ban on throwing chickens into Loch Ness and to take action to prevent \u201cegg-baiting\u201d, a common activity amongst visiting monster hunters. An egg-baiter is a device constructed from wood, fishing line and lead shot. Several raw eggs in which small holes have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/10\/26\/infected-bird-flu-man-arrives-on-french-soil-we-are-all-going-to-die\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Infected bird flu man arrives on French soil. We are all going to die!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7783,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}