Samuel Jutzi
Samuel Jutzi
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The virus seems to be circulating quite widely in Nigeria, which is in the same area where European migratory birds winter.
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Now that the winter is coming the risk is expanding rather fast into areas of eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa,
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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,
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The international community will finally come up with the funding to fight this disease.
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Europe in particular ought to step up in this type of risk management.
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European poultry is facing a real danger at this point in time.
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We can now say that it was definitely the H5N1 virus.
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There's no reason whatever to believe that this geographic expansion will finish in Kazakhstan.
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It would undertake 'rumor tracking' and would be similar to what the World Health Organization has to observe and monitor developments of epidemics 24 hours-a-day.
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If the situation in Nigeria gets out of control, it will have a devastating impact on the poultry population in the region, it will seriously damage the livelihoods of millions of people and it will increase the exposure of humans to the virus.
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No country is risk-free, and we are facing a serious international crisis. It is important that local and national authorities within other countries in the region remain vigilant for possible outbreaks.
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On the one hand there's a certain frustration, but we see the money now flowing, so we're more optimistic than we were half a year ago.
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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.
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We need to be aware that there's a real risk for Europe when the birds migrate northwards this (northern) spring.