Juan Lubroth
Juan Lubroth
Are there more out there that we do not know of?
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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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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.
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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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It is important to underline that there is no evidence that the H5NI virus is present in poultry in Italy. At the moment, the disease remains confined to individual cases in wild birds only.
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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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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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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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Immediate reporting by poultry keepers and their community leaders is the biggest safeguard for people?s health status.
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How extensive the problem is in India is still not known.
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I have praise for the European countries because they have they have implemented their surveillance and identified the virus in migratory birds. This shows us the surveillance is working.
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The measures are an example of how governments should move to contain the virus once it is detected.
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The details are still sketchy, and how extensive the problem is still not known, although there are quite a few deaths.