Juan Lubroth
Juan Lubroth
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It is important to underline that there is no evidence that the H5N1 virus is present in poultry in Italy. At the moment, the disease remains confined to individual cases in wild birds only. The current situation in Italy does not provide consumers with any cause to avoid eating poultry products.
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People need to be informed about the importance of basic hygiene notably washing hands after touching poultry and disinfecting boots or shoes before entering or leaving a poultry farm. They should also be aware of suitable farming practices such as ensuring that poultry are roofed-in to avoid any contact with wild birds and not mixing chickens with other species, such as ducks.
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Immediate reporting by poultry keepers and their community leaders is the biggest safeguard for people?s health status.
activity bird birds blame easy human introduce virus
It's very easy to blame bird migration, because then no one's responsible. Migrating birds may introduce the virus into an area, but it is human activity that spreads it.
control disease learning
They are learning to live with the disease and control it when it appears.
disease months past seen spread
We've never seen a disease spread out as much as this one has in the past 18 months to two years.
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We are still in time to be able to prevent the virus from being endemic in Turkey if the Turkish veterinary services have enough resources.
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What we are seeing is that the surveillance system in Europe is very, very good, since we're picking up disease in migrating swans. If anything, this should increase people's confidence in their food. We're seeing it in migrating swans, not in chickens.
priority
Avian influenza has not been a priority for Indonesians.
Are there more out there that we do not know of?
concern eggs ensure meat poultry production wildlife
Poultry meat and eggs ... are safe, and the concern is to ensure that there is no spillover from wildlife to poultry production systems.
disease
We don't know how the disease got into Nigeria.
against humans protection unlikely
This is unlikely to make any significant contribution to the protection of humans against avian influenza.
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It's like looking at bread crumbs, but you don't see the whole loaf.