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Avian flu: EUprevention bears fruit

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Subido el 6 de agosto de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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Several measures to prevent, detect or contain the H5N1 virus in the EU have managed to stop the virus from spreading up to now. The future evolution of the situation is difficult to foresee because the H5N1 virus is still present in many countries, for example in Asia. The European Commission and the Member States constantly review the state of the disease outbreaks in the world and adapt the surveillance and the control measures accordingly. We have visited a Hungarian farm which was the departure point for an outbreak of avian flu that spread to 28 other Hungarian farms. As a result, a million poultry fowl had to be destroyed. We illustrate the measures taken by the farmers and the Ministry for Agriculture to prevent the spread of the disease, including biosafety rules. We also filmed the monitoring of dead wild birds in the Netherlands, which allowed the rapid detection of highly pathogenic viruses. Also in the Netherlands, we filmed vaccination measures for domestic poultry. The video report also highlights the role of the Veterinary Laboratory Agency in London when it comes to avian flu. They receive samples from the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe, analyse them and work closely with affected countries in order to reach an early diagnosis and to understand how the virus is spreading.

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Avian flu can have devastating effects on poultry farms and the entire economy linked to this activity. 00:00:00
In addition, one can't exclude a transmission of the virus to man and a mutation which could cause a major epidemic of human flu, a pandemic. 00:00:09
The European Commission and the EU member states have long since established rules and measures to apply whenever a disease outbreak occurs. 00:00:18
The key word of the European strategy to protect against animal viruses, including avian flu, is prevention. 00:00:27
In order to prevent the introduction of the disease into domestic poultry farms, it is essential that domestic poultry are kept separated by wild birds 00:00:35
and also the contacts between farms, between domestic poultry farms are reduced to a minimum. 00:00:45
On the farms, this means confining poultry and respecting several sanitary rules that this Hungarian farmer applies. 00:00:52
We wash the wheels of vehicles, we store the crops in covered areas, we pay more attention to who's coming or going from the farm, 00:01:01
we reduce the traffic to the farm much more than before, practically no one is coming in or out. 00:01:08
Other solutions exist to prevent the spread of the virus to domestic poultry. 00:01:15
Example, in the Netherlands, where an epidemic occurred in 2003. 00:01:19
Here, vaccination is used more and more. 00:01:23
Since the epidemic, people with domestic poultry asked us to vaccinate their birds to protect them from being infected. 00:01:28
In order to combat bird flu at source, it's also necessary to keep a watchful eye on wild birds and the viruses they carry. 00:01:36
Several European countries, including the Netherlands, have decided to step up the surveillance by collecting dead wild birds 00:01:42
in order to detect more swiftly the presence of the highly pathogenic virus. 00:01:48
7,000 voluntary observers, such as this one, are operating throughout the country. 00:01:51
The samples of the migratory birds are then sent for analysis to the laboratories. 00:01:56
In this reference lab in London, the number of samples analysed has gone from 10,000 to 120,000 in less than a year. 00:02:00
It's multiplied by 12. 00:02:07
The research programme we have here is nearly 50% of our total effort in working on avian influenza. 00:02:10
So that demonstrates how important it is to actually be ahead of the virus, if we possibly can, 00:02:17
and develop programmes so that we can better understand all of the aspects about the virus and its properties 00:02:24
and the host population that it affects. 00:02:31
All these measures to prevent, detect or contain the H5N1 virus in the EU 00:02:35
have up to now managed to prevent the virus from spreading. 00:02:40
The future evolution of the situation is difficult to foresee 00:02:43
because the H5N1 virus is still present in many countries, for example in Asia. 00:02:46
This is why the Commission and the Member States constantly review the state of the disease outbreaks in the world 00:02:51
and adapt the surveillance and the control measures accordingly. 00:02:57
For more information, visit www.fema.gov 00:03:04
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The European Union
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6 de agosto de 2007 - 10:58
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