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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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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We encouraged the countries to increase surveillance. But I'm not a policeman. What I can do is to ask governments to be more vigilant.
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I would love to have a map of illegal trade - but I'm embarrassed to say we don't have a good handle on it. We all know it occurs and we are worried, but what we see confiscated is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Poultry meat and eggs ... are safe, and the concern is to ensure that there is no spillover from wildlife to poultry production systems.
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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.
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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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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.
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It's like looking at bread crumbs, but you don't see the whole loaf.
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They are learning to live with the disease and control it when it appears.
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We're been looking for it in wild birds for the last two months and it is surprising that we've come up with zero.
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There are other ways diseases move around the world.It could be that wildlife introduced the virus, but through our own activities of commerce, the disease spread.
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We still have time to prevent the pathology from becoming an epidemic if Turkish veterinary services receive the necessary aid from international organizations.