Sally Furniss
Well-known member
IICA launches materials on avian influenza
http://www.iica.int/noticias/detalles/2007/CP08-2007_eng.pdf
The Institute will make these audiovisual training materials on biosafety
available to the public and private sectors of its 34 member countries,
as support for efforts to prevent avian influenza.
San Jose, February, 2007 (IICA). Juan Galvan has a small poultry farm somewhere in the
Americas and has heard that avian influenza may reach his community. Galvan is the main character in a radio series and a videocassette recently launched by Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) to help prevent an eventual outbreak of this transboundary disease in the region.
Both instruments target small and medium-scale producers,including those with only a few birds in their backyards, who must improve their biosafety practices if they are going to keep their flocks free from avian influenza or any other
transmissible disease.
In writing the scripts, Susana Fevrirer, an experienced communicator, drew
information and ideas from the FAO publication "Guide to the
prevention and control of avian flu in small-scale poultry farming in Latin America and the Caribbean.?
Audiovisual materials for producers
This radio series, entitled ?Mas vale prevenir?? (An ounce of prevention?), comprises ten six-minute chapters, in the format of a dramatization. It tells the story of Juan Galvan, a long-time farmer who, when learning of the possibility of an outbreak of avian influenza, decides to follow the advice of agricultural health specialists and take a few easy and inexpensive biosafety measures on his farm.
General information on the disease, the ABCs of preventive measures and the correct response in the face of an outbreak in the country are addressed in the different chapters of the series, which can be broadcast over the radio or used in on-site training activities.
The 10-minute video ?Bird Flu Prevention is possible? explains what the disease is, how to protect the farm (before the virus arrives), safety measures to be implement and the symptoms sick birds will display. The mini-documentary is accompanied by three television spots also aimed at preventing the transmission of the disease on small poultry farms.
For further information, visit the IICA Website on avian influenza:
http://www.iica.int/AvianInfluenza/default.asp or the Office of Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture in your country.
http://www.iica.int/noticias/detalles/2007/CP08-2007_eng.pdf
The Institute will make these audiovisual training materials on biosafety
available to the public and private sectors of its 34 member countries,
as support for efforts to prevent avian influenza.
San Jose, February, 2007 (IICA). Juan Galvan has a small poultry farm somewhere in the
Americas and has heard that avian influenza may reach his community. Galvan is the main character in a radio series and a videocassette recently launched by Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) to help prevent an eventual outbreak of this transboundary disease in the region.
Both instruments target small and medium-scale producers,including those with only a few birds in their backyards, who must improve their biosafety practices if they are going to keep their flocks free from avian influenza or any other
transmissible disease.
In writing the scripts, Susana Fevrirer, an experienced communicator, drew
information and ideas from the FAO publication "Guide to the
prevention and control of avian flu in small-scale poultry farming in Latin America and the Caribbean.?
Audiovisual materials for producers
This radio series, entitled ?Mas vale prevenir?? (An ounce of prevention?), comprises ten six-minute chapters, in the format of a dramatization. It tells the story of Juan Galvan, a long-time farmer who, when learning of the possibility of an outbreak of avian influenza, decides to follow the advice of agricultural health specialists and take a few easy and inexpensive biosafety measures on his farm.
General information on the disease, the ABCs of preventive measures and the correct response in the face of an outbreak in the country are addressed in the different chapters of the series, which can be broadcast over the radio or used in on-site training activities.
The 10-minute video ?Bird Flu Prevention is possible? explains what the disease is, how to protect the farm (before the virus arrives), safety measures to be implement and the symptoms sick birds will display. The mini-documentary is accompanied by three television spots also aimed at preventing the transmission of the disease on small poultry farms.
For further information, visit the IICA Website on avian influenza:
http://www.iica.int/AvianInfluenza/default.asp or the Office of Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture in your country.