There's been a lot of debate about the role that migratory birds are or might play in spreading the disease. |
This is the primary, if not the only, means which BSE is spread from animal to animal. |
Was the animal was born before or after the feed ban, that's the main issue for us. |
We can't afford for this virus to be smoldering six months before we find it. |
We have all of the safeguards in place to ensure the safety of the animal and the products that might be derived from that animal. |
We have the appropriate safeguards in place - overlapping, redundant safeguards - to protect public health and animal health. |
We have worked hard...to develop a viable plan that will enable Florida to produce, harvest, process, and ship healthy citrus in the presence of citrus canker. |
We haven't done all that we can do to help affected countries attack the virus in birds. |
We hope that it doesn't come here. But our planning is on the assumption that it will arrive here. And we need to be prepared. |
We'll have a number of people who are familiar with aging cattle by their dentition look at this animal and see if they concur with the original veterinarian. |
We'll want to know what feed that animal had been fed, and even more importantly what other animals were on the farm at that same time that might have consumed the same feed and where are they now? |
We're going to increase surveillance of migratory birds because we know that is a potential pathway. |
What we're devising and considering now ... is consistent with international standards. |