33 Quotes by Philip Tod

There are disadvantages if vaccination is not done in a controlled way. Animals that are inadequately vaccinated may contract the virus anyway and continue to spread it.

We are taking the additional precaution of defining high-risk areas to act as a buffer zone between infected areas and unaffected parts of a member state.

Many of those questions are being discussed at ministerial level. You don't get answers to sensitive political questions during an exercise.

I believe the Danish authorities are shortly about to announce that the tests conducted so far are negative.

Research shows that this particular avian flu virus can be transmitted to humans who are in direct contact with the infected animal.

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.

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.

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.

We hope this will rally member states around the authorization process. We want practical improvements in the system.