Juan Lubroth
Juan Lubroth
avoid aware basic birds boots chickens contact ensuring entering farming hands hygiene importance informed leaving mixing people poultry practices shoes touching washing wild
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.
community continue expertise field financial fully national operations plans private provide supported
Such plans and field operations must be fully supported by national governments with participation of the private sector. The international community should continue to provide expertise and financial resources.
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.
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.
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.
animals farmers government report
If the government is just there to kill the animals and cull them there is the possibility that the farmers won't report cases.
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.
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.
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.
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.
against humans protection unlikely
This is unlikely to make any significant contribution to the protection of humans against avian influenza.
priority
Avian influenza has not been a priority for Indonesians.