Juan Lubroth Quotes

"The risk to humans is less if the disease is in wildlife than if it is in poultry."

"What we are seeing is that the surveillance system in Europe is very, very good, since we're picking up disease in migrating swans. If anything, this should increase people's confidence in their food. We're seeing it in migrating swans, not in chickens."

"We don't know how the disease got into Nigeria."

"The measures are an example of how governments should move to contain the virus once it is detected."

"A complete cull of all rural poultry in the country is not necessary and we were very vocal about this when I was there [in Turkey]."

"The virus may be spreading despite the control measures already taken."

"Infected poultry should be reported immediately and all internationally recommended control measures should be used in outbreak areas, including humane culling, strict isolation and, if and when appropriate, vaccination."

"The virus may be spreading despite the control measures already taken. Far more human and animal exposure to the virus will occur if strict containment does not isolate all known and unknown locations where the bird flu virus is currently present."

"I have praise for the European countries because they have they have implemented their surveillance and identified the virus in migratory birds. This shows us the surveillance is working."