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France urges EU-Med partnership on animal disease
Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:46pm EDT
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ANNECY, France (Reuters) - The European Union might do well to share expertise with non-EU countries bordering the Mediterranean to help fight the spread of animal diseases like bird flu or bluetongue, France's farm minister said on Monday.
"We could create ... a European or Mediterranean network. A lot of risks are coming from the south, as we know," France's Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier told a conference on animal health and disease.
"There are a number of countries that are ready to work in this direction ... between the two shores of the Mediterranean. The idea is to provide our expertise in animal health to the countries of the south to create regional partnerships."
He did not elaborate on which countries had expressed an interest in this area.
EU countries were seeing more animal-to-human disease transmission in recent years, along with animal disease epidemics such as bluetongue, foot-and-mouth and classical swine fever, experts at the conference said.
Trade and smuggling of animal products, especially birds, were a major factor, they said. Emerging viruses were being identified with increasing frequency, and in humans these were predominantly coming from the animal world.
"Animal health is just as much a risk for humans, not least the breeders themselves who have direct consequences on any restrictions on animal movements," Barnier said.:tiphat: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSLM7116520080922
Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:46pm EDT
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ANNECY, France (Reuters) - The European Union might do well to share expertise with non-EU countries bordering the Mediterranean to help fight the spread of animal diseases like bird flu or bluetongue, France's farm minister said on Monday.
"We could create ... a European or Mediterranean network. A lot of risks are coming from the south, as we know," France's Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier told a conference on animal health and disease.
"There are a number of countries that are ready to work in this direction ... between the two shores of the Mediterranean. The idea is to provide our expertise in animal health to the countries of the south to create regional partnerships."
He did not elaborate on which countries had expressed an interest in this area.
EU countries were seeing more animal-to-human disease transmission in recent years, along with animal disease epidemics such as bluetongue, foot-and-mouth and classical swine fever, experts at the conference said.
Trade and smuggling of animal products, especially birds, were a major factor, they said. Emerging viruses were being identified with increasing frequency, and in humans these were predominantly coming from the animal world.
"Animal health is just as much a risk for humans, not least the breeders themselves who have direct consequences on any restrictions on animal movements," Barnier said.:tiphat: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSLM7116520080922