>    Although I know you are careful...please do not loosen up on your
>"cootie patrol"  From the differernt newsletters I get, there seems to
>be a REAL problem with Polyoma in Michigan right now.  The editor for
>West Michigan Feathered Friends just lost 2 of her baby Lories.
I haven't heard of any RECENT outbreaks; last one I heard that was
confirmed was last November, in a pet store in Grand Rapids (Near the
W.M.F.F. area). Perhaps the lory story was part of the larger pet store
outbreak--I know lories were involved there.
> And the "best" part, the editors husband is an Oxyfresh distributer...
You'd think THEY would have known better!
>    Also I can't help but wonder if this has anything to due with those
>budgies from wherever......
I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear some of those budgies were
involved. Lord knows WHERE they ended up by now.
Y'know what?; the "avian" vet that originally told that budgie breeder
to give away those 1200 infected birds to the general public is now
begging for anyone with a polyoma-positive outbreak to give him dead
birds so HE can get the vaccine made for Michigan thru Dr. Ritchie's
lab. Go figure--he could have singlehandedly CAUSED any outbreaks that
occur here, and now he's trying to be the hero vet who first gets the
vaccine into the state. I'd like to smack that guy... 
--Kathy
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