Personally, I'd shower and wash the set of clothes I'd been wearing before handling my bird, if I were to go to a bird mart.
While it is technically true you could pick up an avian disease anywhere, it isn't near as likely, or as concentrated, as a bird mart. It could be in the air and on any of the surfaces. It'd be like saying your chance of catching a flu from one person in the same super market as you, is as likely as catching the flu in a small room full of many sick people.
Better safe than sorry.
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I agree with that for the most part. I too would be cautious, but what I'm trying to say is that nothing is ever guaranteed. The tables are too general for my liking. While it is important to keep our babies safe, to me, saying that all Bird Marts/Expo's (including ones that do not have birds at them) is just as bad as padding on playgrounds.
I agree totally with all you said. Sometimes I think we get a little overcautious on quarantine as well. If you purchase a bird from a reputable breeder that shows evidence that her breeders have been tested twice a year by a vet then I don't think the quarantine is as important at least not to an extreme of 30 to 60 days. I was mainly talking about people who quarantine over extended periods of time and then go to bird marts it is such a contradiction of what they believe. More than likely those people don't go to bird marts. Ultimately everyone has to make their own decisions about what they do. As for hand sanitizer and antibacterial soap it IS more harmful because it creates super germs. I never use hand sanitizer. I am not a germ freak at all.
Our avian vet says the same thing. If they come from a reputable breeder then you don't have so many worries. When you see the vet check from her aviary that her birds have been tested then everything will probably be good. I think we are on the same page here. Hope you didn't think I was arguing> Just wanted to post that informative article in case people didn't see it and unknowingly went to a show and later found out they wished they hadn't. What a person does with the info is strictly their own business.