48 Quotes by Joseph Domenech

The movement and trade of poultry have strongly contributed to the further spread of the virus.

Compensating farmers for the loss of their animals is another important tool to encourage early reporting of outbreaks and for effective application of control measures. Without financial incentives, people will probably continue to hide outbreaks and sell infected poultry.

Avian influenza has become endemic in Indonesia and it is continuing to spread.

This is a very worrying situation, and the risk from wild birds is a very difficult questions,

It's a very worrisome situation because it's in a big country with a lot of poultry farms. It has good conditions to have several outbreaks.

It remains unclear if the outbreak has been triggered by migratory birds or by the trade and movement of poultry or poultry products.

It's easy to understand the point of view of the Netherlands, since they lost 50 percent of their poultry population in 2003. But do we have to promote this for all countries? At this point, we are not sure.

Considering the possible widespread entrenchment of the disease in poultry, FAO is advising the government to prepare for a targeted vaccination campaign.

The need to keep domestic birds away from wild birds has been widely recognized and efforts to do so have been implemented in many countries.