BIRD FLU UPDATE: CROATIA RUSSIA AFRICA – AU, FAO
October 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE UNITED Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has raised concerns about bird flu spreading to Africa, where poverty is so rife and governments so weak, eradication would be practically impossible. With the disease spreading to Croatia from Turkey and Romania (and a quarantine outbreak in Britain), the FAO's chief veterinary officer Joseph Domenech warned of the disease taking hold in sub-Saharan Africa.He said: "If the virus were to become endemic in eastern Africa, it could increase the risk of the virus to evolve through mutation or ...
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