Overview
- Covers political, scientific and industry points of view in AI control
- Includes information from AI outbreak control in the USA, Asia and Europa
- Contains papers from the world’s leading AI specialists
- Provides in depth information on sensitive issues as regulation of low pathogenic and high pathogenic AI, surveillance of waterfowl, live bird markets, and outbreak control in densely populated areas from the discussions held during the conference
Part of the book series: Wageningen UR Frontis Series (WURF, volume 8)
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Keywords
- Pathogen
- avian influenza
- health
- infection
- virus
- ecotoxicology
About this book
Avian Influenza has become one of the biggest threats for human and animal health. The old paradigm was that the disease in waterfowl, poultry, pigs and man was caused by separate viruses that each stayed reasonably well within their own niche. The only danger to man was considered being infected by pigs, being the mixing vessel, where avian and human influenza viruses could come together and exchange genetic material to form new viruses that are potentially dangerous to man.
This has dramatically proven wrong during the last decade, with huge outbreaks in the USA, Europe, and Asia. The H5N1 strain that caused human deaths in Hong Kong appeared to be transmitted directly from poultry to man. This initiated sudden awareness that pigs were not a necessary intermediate in the transmission chain. During the AI outbreaks in Italy, mutation of low-pathogenicity viruses into high-pathogenicity viruses in poultry appeared another new threat, and further evidence that the poultry sector had a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It put pressure on development of diagnostic methods that could be used in large monitoring programmes.
In The Netherlands a human fatality, after increased reports of conjunctivitis during a H7N7 outbreak, signalled that different AI strains could be fatal to man. Also, the huge economic losses and difficulties in controlling the spread of the infection in densely populated poultry areas, problems with vaccination and lack of marker vaccines demonstrated that the current control policy must be improved. These events led to an international AI conference with experts from Asia, USA and Europe.
In this book you will find new views on the issues, expert opinions and the results of in-depth discussions among avian experts of around the world that do not want to give up against this dangerous virus.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Avian Influenza
Book Subtitle: Prevention and Control
Editors: Remco S. Schrijver, G. Koch
Series Title: Wageningen UR Frontis Series
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3439-8Published: 09 June 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3440-4Published: 31 October 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 152