Six months ago, we alerted the international community to the risk of bird flu reaching Africa. Now we have to say that there is a risk for Europe in the spring. |
The core of the problem is the circulation of H5N1 virus is domestic poultry; priority action for solving the problem is therefore at the level of the animal, |
The core of the problem is the circulation of H5N1 virus is domestic poultry; priority action for solving the problem is therefore at the level of the animal. |
The international community will finally come up with the funding to fight this disease. |
The virus seems to be circulating quite widely in Nigeria, which is in the same area where European migratory birds winter. |
There's no reason whatever to believe that this geographic expansion will finish in Kazakhstan. |
This means addressing the transmission of the virus where the disease occurs, in poultry, specifically free-range chickens and wetland dwelling ducks, and thus curbing the disease occurrence in the region before it spreads to other parts of the world, |
This means addressing the transmission of the virus where the disease occurs, in poultry, specifically free-range chickens and wetland dwelling ducks, and thus curbing the disease occurrence in the region before it spreads to other parts of the world. |
We can now say that it was definitely the H5N1 virus |
We can now say that it was definitely the H5N1 virus, |
We can now say that it was definitely the H5N1 virus. |
we continue to state that this is an animal disease, an animal health problem, that we want to deal with aggressively in order to prevent a human pandemic. |
We do not expect a major outbreak or that it will become widespread as it did in Asia a few years ago, because the veterinary services in these countries reacted very effectively, |
We just haven't spent enough money, |
We need to be aware that there's a real risk for Europe when the birds migrate northwards this (northern) spring. |