Joseph Domenech Birds Quotations

One of our major concerns is now the potential spread of avian influenza through migratory birds to northern and eastern Africa, ... There is serious risk that this scenario may become a reality.

Wild birds seem to be one of the main avian influenza carriers, but more research is urgently needed to fully understand their role in spreading the virus,

We should provide incentives to poor African farmers to report immediately if they suspect an outbreak among poultry, and discourage them from rushing to sell birds on the market.

Birds play a role in the primary infection of the country, but then after that there's no need for wildlife. It will spread very easily from one village to another through trade,

We've recently started to become more worried about transmission in the wild, particularly after the big outbreak among migratory birds in Qinghai,

FAO is concerned that poor countries in southeast Europe, where wild birds from Asia mingle with others from northern Europe, may lack the capacity to detect and deal with outbreaks of bird flu.

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.

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

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