Juan Lubroth
Juan Lubroth
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.
endemic prevent services time turkey turkish virus
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.
ask countries encouraged increase
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.
good handle illegal love map occurs tip trade
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.
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.
confidence disease europe increase picking seeing since system
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.
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.
bread looking
It's like looking at bread crumbs, but you don't see the whole loaf.
control disease learning
They are learning to live with the disease and control it when it appears.
birds last looking months surprising wild
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.
activities diseases introduced move ways wildlife
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.
aid becoming epidemic necessary pathology prevent receive services time turkish
We still have time to prevent the pathology from becoming an epidemic if Turkish veterinary services receive the necessary aid from international organizations.
active bird countries difference disease european fact human market means picked poultry raise spread virus wild
We don't have a spread of the virus, what we have is the introduction of the virus into countries of the European Union. The difference is that it's human activities, through commerce, through the market place, through the way we raise our poultry that we get disease spread. The fact that in Europe, in many countries, it's been picked up in migratory birds, is very, very relevant, it means that the European authorities -- Italy, Greece, Germany, Denmark, Austria -- are monitoring, doing active surveillance in the wild bird population.
disease
We don't know how the disease got into Nigeria.