Philip Tod
Philip Tod
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The aim of these national surveillance programs is to provide early detection of cases of avian influenza, particularly in wild birds and poultry in the European Union.
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This legislation is not related to the current case of contamination in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
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In the case of Bulgaria, we will be sending some laboratory and veterinary experts, who will likely leave this weekend. For Turkey, the experts we will send are likely to be specialists in epidemiology.
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The European Commission has so far received no information which suggests the UK authorities have breached the requirements. The UK authorities are still investigating the circumstances in this case and the Commission will wait for the outcome of that investigation to properly assess the situation.
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Research shows that this particular avian flu virus can be transmitted to humans who are in direct contact with the infected animal.
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Such an exercise had never been carried out on this scale, it was a full-blown scenario with the worst that we could be confronted with.
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That aid is yet to be agreed by the ACP countries. We certainly expect Nigeria to benefit from part of these funds, to help them in their fight of this disease.
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We welcome the fact that an important actor in the food and drinks industry has put forward concrete commitments.
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We are working on the assumption that it is also the H5N1 virus and all the measures have been adopted with that in mind.
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We are concerned enough that we have instituted this ban to avoid risking importing the disease into the EU from an infected country. But we are not able to say what type of virus we are talking about - or how pathogenic it is.
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We don't have avian influenza in commercial poultry in the European Union and we consider that poultry meat and eggs, especially when properly cooked, pose no risk to human health,
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I believe the Danish authorities are shortly about to announce that the tests conducted so far are negative.
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Many of those questions are being discussed at ministerial level. You don't get answers to sensitive political questions during an exercise.
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The samples are now expected to arrive at the Community Reference Laboratory late on Friday and so results can only be expected by Saturday afternoon, not before.