Re: Times on line and bird flu

Jim Webster wrote:
>>> Hopefully this one is being monitored like no other ever was
>>
>> Except that the evidence shows otherwise
>> It has obviously been in Tukey for quite some time
>> There was little reaction to the birds being contaminated until
>> human health was affected
>
> I suspect that it wasn't regarded as much of a threat until human
> health was affected.

I fear you are correct
Which considering the strength of warnings that have been given out around
the world for the pasat few years is a sad state of play

Given the number of animal diseases that are
> endemic in these parts of the world, one more is just one more
> problem.

If only

There isn't a lot of money to spend on animal health, the
> rural population is dispersed and probably avoids drawing the
> attention of the central government, and the owners of the birds
> wouldn't expect to get any sort of compensation for their losses.

That is why the response has to be global - its not within the means of many
governments in the most sensitive areas to cope with this alone

>
> At a basic level I think there ought to be a ban of domestic poultry
> movements across the EU frontier.
> The next thing to do is to try and get the other countries out there
> to take it seriously and do something about it. One obvious way to do
> this is to ban imports of any poultry products whatsoever from
> countries that do not meet certain standards. Decent compensation for
> flock owners could be one of those standards.
> Obviously there will still be countries that don't do anything, but
> they will probably be those who don't have any sort of organised
> industry anyway. It would be better to do more, but the above should
> at least be both possible and also legal under current WTO regulations

It will be interesting to see what comes out of the AI mega meeting
These are certainly some of the basics that should have been in place over
the past 4 years -- really as soon as it got out of control in SE Asia.
Mind you as none of this is going to come cheep! [sorry] and none of it has
the qudos of war or invasions I fear there will be a little window dressing
and then much hand wringing in years to come

--

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Jill Bowis

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