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UN warns against dropping guard on bird flu
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 16 - 04 - 2010


The deadly avian influenza virus from poultry has
been eliminated in most of the 63 countries it infected at the peak
of the world outbreak in 2006 - but it still poses a threat to animal
and human health, a United Nations agency warned Friday, according to dpa.
The H5N1 virus remains entrenched in five nations - Egypt,
Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam and China - the Rome-based Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.
The progressive control of H5N1 in such countries remains an
international priority, according to FAO Chief Veterinary Officer
Juan Lubroth.
Though public attention shifted to the so-called swineflu
influenza A virus pandemic - caused by the H1N1 virus - H5N1
continues to be a serious menace, as long as it is present "in even
one country," Lubroth said.
"We should not forget that it has killed 292 humans, killed or
forced the culling of more than 260 million birds, caused an
estimated 20 billion dollars of economic damage across the globe and
devastated livelihoods at the family-farm level," he said.
Lubroth was speaking ahead of the International Ministerial
Conference on Animal and Pandemic Influenza in Hanoi, Vietnam on
Monday, April 19.
The H5N1 strain of avian influenza remains established in places
where tens of millions of free-ranging domestic ducks are present,
significant industrial broiler production exists together with live
bird markets, and where human and animal densities are high, FAO
said.
The Hanoi ministerial conference is intended to marshal
international cooperation against future infectious diseases drawing
on experience gained in responses to pandemic A/H1N1 influenza and
H5N1 avian influenza.


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