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EU: Wir haben die Hosen voll:
Robert Koch Inst.: Die Zugvögel sind wieder mal schuld
F.Löffler Inst: Und noch mal die Zugvögel
Und jetzt wissen wir endlich alle, warum nicht geimpft wird:
Spätestens jetzt muss allen Vogelhaltern klar sein, was im Frühjahr auf sie zukommt:
Kontrollieren . Aufstallen . Keulen . Das neue Credo der deutschen Politik
EU: Wir haben die Hosen voll:
The European Union issued a directive Tuesday urging nations to deal aggressively with low-threat strains of the virus. Investigations should be launched whenever a suspicion of infection arises, it said.
Philip Tod, a spokesman for the EU Health and Consumer Protection Commission, said bird breeders should enclose their pens to limit contact with wild fowl and that signs of the flu should trigger mass culling in infected areas.
Robert Koch Inst.: Die Zugvögel sind wieder mal schuld
Reinhard Burger, the vice president of Germany's infectious disease center, the Robert Koch Institute, said that in the past Europeans could cull infected birds. "But we've never seen numbers approaching what we're expecting to see - hundreds of millions of infected birds will likely be returning to Europe with the spring weather.
F.Löffler Inst: Und noch mal die Zugvögel
Thomas Mettenleiter, the president of Germany's leading animal disease center, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, said millions of wild birds left Europe flu-free this autumn to winter in Africa. There they'll mix with migrating birds from Southeast Asia, where the lethal strain of the virus is far more common.
March and April are going to be high alert times here," said Mettenleiter. "We've got a lot of work to do before then."
As Mettenleiter explains: "We don't know if H5 strains can sustain a human pandemic, but if they can, the results are potentially catastrophic."
Und jetzt wissen wir endlich alle, warum nicht geimpft wird:
There is a vaccine for birds. But it only would make them more resistant to flu, not stop them from spreading the disease, Mettenleiter said. "If the strain can jump to humans, that's the last thing we want. For now, at least, chickens are our sentinels."
Spätestens jetzt muss allen Vogelhaltern klar sein, was im Frühjahr auf sie zukommt:
Kontrollieren . Aufstallen . Keulen . Das neue Credo der deutschen Politik