文档介绍：Agriculture, Biosecurity, Nutrition
and Consumer Protection Department
Food and anization
of the United Nations
Stopping avian influenza
The H5N1 virus has devastated Asia's domestic poultry, but has not yet changed
into a form transmissible to humans. The "window of opportunity" to control and
eradicate the disease is still open...
This is how quickly bird 'flu can kill: in August
2003 a poultry trader in Central Java, Indonesia,
reported that 7,000 of his chickens had died
virtually overnight. Investigations revealed that
the birds had been devastated by one of
Indonesia's first outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic
Avian Influenza (HPAI), caused by the aggressive
H5N1 strain of the AI virus. Within months,
avian influenza had exploded across Java and
most other countries of Asia, causing, by
November 2005, the deaths of more than 140
million domestic birds and economic losses of
around $10 billion.
In the same period, WHO reports, 126 people
contracted the disease and 64 of them have died.
While Southeast Asia remains the epicentre of
the disease, outbreaks since July 2005 in Jutzi said the "window of opportunity" for
Croatia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Romania, Russia avoiding a human pandemic is still open - the
and Turkey have confirmed the westward spread virus has not yet re-assorted or mutated. "But
of the virus along