Follow-up to necropsy news from Sterdon:

"Just the initial necropsy is done will not know for sure about the
grapes till monday or tuesday. The grapes are with the board of
health. the tissue tests will take a week or 2 for the necropsy. I
will email the person doing my web page and fix anything that is
wrong. Please bare with us all at this time we are trying to keep
everyone updated and some times facts get mixed up it is still to
fresh in our mind to think straight all the time. I will post here the
facts and if you all could cross post for me I would be very grateful."


In a previous post, "Nathan Schulman"  said:

>Chilean fruit should be avoided generally since they use pesticides banned
>in the USA.
>
>This is from the 911 parrot alert list. These poor people lost 8 birds
>after feeding grapes that came from Chili. While they cannot be 100%
>sure yet all things point to the grapes. I thought it was worth letting
>you all know. It's not worth taking the chance until we know for sure. I
>will post news as I get it.
>Merilee
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>From:
>
>
>          Hi all
>
>                 Thank you for your prayers. We have lost Marmalade a M2
>Sunny a U2 Lita a GSC Joe a U2 abigail a MSC Marly a U2 Tasha a U2 Marcy a
>Noble Macaw and squally a pionus. This has devastated us they all died with
>in Half hour of eating half a grape that were washed with anti bactirial
>soap and rinsed well. We are taking birds to vet in morning for necropsy and
>grapes to health department for testing as our 18 year old daughter got sick
>at the same time as birds dieing. they all died with in minutes of each
>other there was nothing we could have done we called 3 vets the fire
>department was here to check for CO2 the police were here also the animal
>cpntrol was here we are also working with the health department as this
>happened last year here on the cape with fruit from chile but last year it
>was people that got sick not birds that I know of. We did not know this till
>the fire department came.
>
>
>                 Please don't feed fresh fruit till we fined out for sure
>what happened we can not say 100% it was the fruit but we will as soon as
>the lab work comes back. But for now we are 99% sure it was the grapes.
>
>                 Sterdon
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>
>Subject: The necropsy is in
>
>On February 24th, 2005 we suffered a devastating loss.
>
>My family and ACPR has suffered an immense and incalculable loss.  TO have
>these members of our flock ripped from us with no warning is something I
>don't
>wish for anyone to go through.
>
>The necropsy is in, and it appears to be a natural toxin affecting the
>nervous system.  The Toxin is caused by a mold growth in the meat of the
>grape.
>



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