Joseph Domenech
Joseph Domenech
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One of our major concerns is now the potential spread of avian influenza through migratory birds to northern and eastern Africa, ... There is serious risk that this scenario may become a reality.
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The Middle East and northern African countries should be able to build up a line of defense against avian influenza. FAO is more concerned about the situation in eastern Africa, where veterinary services, due to various constraints, should have more difficulties to run efficient bird flu campaigns based on slaughtering infected animals and vaccination,
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The close proximity between people and animals and insufficient surveillance and disease control capability in eastern African countries create an ideal breeding ground for the virus,
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Without financial incentives, people will probably continue to hide outbreaks and sell infected poultry.
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Everything has to be done to find out exactly where the virus came from, since it would be a big surprise to find it in South America.
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Birds play a role in the primary infection of the country, but then after that there's no need for wildlife. It will spread very easily from one village to another through trade,
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We've recently started to become more worried about transmission in the wild, particularly after the big outbreak among migratory birds in Qinghai,
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The priority to prevent the pandemic still stands on Asia, but besides that, if the virus is coming in Africa, yes, it's a very big worry for us.
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We are very much worried and surprised since we thought Turkey had the capacity to respond.
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There is still a window of opportunity for substantially reducing the risk of a human pandemic evolving from H5N1 by controlling the virus at its source, in animals.
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We are not blaming the countries involved who are doing all they can. But it is proving very hard to shut down markets, to slaughter chickens. Livestock is many people's livelihood. It is very worrying.
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The animal health infrastructure in the country is facing a big challenge and will require outside assistance.
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It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.
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Given that it is a highly contagious disease, we were sure it could spread from one region to another, either through wildlife or through trade and movements of products. So this happened and we are not surprised at all.