Avian flu prevention should focus on farms, markets - Wildlife Conservation Society

Wildlife condition habituated from the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife
Conservation Society (WCS) alert that knotty work to custody the
dissemination of avian virus across Asia and elapsed must focus
by means of the haunch of economically again guidance practice on
farm and within market.

WCS be at the moment method beside Mongolian agencies on the
benefaction in Mongolia's Kovsgol province, pool sample from
frenzied geese that enjoy only purely contracted the virus.

"We're working with our Mongolian and broad-based partner to
commend and track the exercises of Avian flu in the locale," said
Dr. Billy Karesh, skipper of the WCS squad currently in Mongolia.
"The narrow-minded expectation in support of elatedly contain the
spread of avian flu is focus our restricted possessions on the
hub where on globe human, farm animals and wildlife become heir
to dear introduction." According to WCS, avian infection disincentive
accomplishments should overlay better management practices in
farms, principally waiflike open-air farms where disciplined
poultry and waterfowl be allowed to intermingle with wild birds.
Wildlife markets--where wild and domesticated species are kept in
close proximity--are also hubs of transference for avian flu and
other pathogens that necessitate to be better regulated. Wildlife
and health
experts also complain that indiscriminate cull of wild wandering
bird populations would be useless in obviate the spread of the
disease.

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A amalgamated WCS-Mongolia team that be working in western
Mongolia undeviating go to the underneath military camp to
collect more samples that will be circulate to the United States
Department of Agriculture for further testing to unearth the
strain. These tests will determine if the virus is the H5N1
strain that has kill complete 50 individuals in Southeast Asia
and beyond 5000 wild birds in western China.

The team, in an unprecedented, international multidisciplinary
energy, include branch of WCS, the Mongolian National Academy of
Sciences, the Mongolian Institute of Veterinary Medicine, the
State Central Veterinary Laboratory, Ministry of Food and
Agriculture Veterinary Department, and the Ministry of Health
Mongolian Center of Communicable Diseases with Natural Foci.

"The Mongolian governmental agencies working on this are to be
commended for keeping the international federation informed on
this prominent health bring out," said Dr. Robert Cook, WCS Chief
Veterinarian. "This is the finesse of collaborative 'One World,
One Health' effort explicitly key in keeping possible epidemic
contained." In buoyant of the recent outbreak of avian flu in
other region, WCS proposed and with the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization fund an search out to Mongolia to look
over the role of wild birds in the spread of avian influenza.

Previously, outbreaks in wild birds have any be in close
propinquity to diseased domestic poultry and waterfowl, or in
regions where contact with domestic poultry could not be
excluded.

As Mongolia has few domestic poultry, finding the H5N1 virus in
wild migratory birds here would signify that wild birds can
become infected and convey greatly pathogenic avian influenza
protracted coldness. "Wild birds are queasy and failing, thus
they may be the victims to both list than the vectors of the
disease. Laboratory testing from surviving birds will share us if
they are competent to pass the virus during the migration" tell
Dr. Karesh. This facts will allow country in the region to
shelter human and domestic animal health by limiting contact with
wild birds and intensifying examination for the virus on poultry
farms.

John Delaney jdelaney@wcs.org 718-220-3275 Wildlife Conservation
Society

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