Philip Tod Virus Quotations

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

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 concerned enough that we have instituted this ban to avoid risking importing the disease into the EU from an infected country. But we are not able to say what type of virus we are talking about - or how pathogenic it is.

We are working on the assumption that it is also the H5N1 virus and all the measures have been adopted with that in mind.

The Commission has been informed by the European Union reference laboratory ... that the virus isolated in wild birds in Croatia is indeed the H5N1 virus,