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Lately, Chisholm has been paying a lot more attention to the news from overseas. Since the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus was first reported in Turkey last fall, avian flu has spread swiftly, landing in France, Germany, Iraq, India, Nigeria, Niger, Poland and many other countries. So far this year, three dozen human cases have been confirmed in China, Turkey, Iraq and Indonesia...
...Even if H5N1 remains a problem mostly among birds, however, the virus could have a devastating economic impact on Chisholm and many other farmers and the businesses that depend on them. Poultry sales have already plummeted across Asia and Europe. Overall, U.S. exports of broiler chickens were down 30% in December 2005 compared with the prior year. The greatest danger, however, may be in Africa, where the income, not to mention the food, that chickens provide can mean the difference between life and death...
Most experts think it's just a matter of time before avian flu finds its way to the Americas. Dr. David Nabarro, U.N. coordinator for avian and human influenza, told reporters last week he believed that H5N1 would jump to the New World "within the next six to 12 months." The U.S. government appears to agree. "Be prepared for H5N1 being identified in the U.S.," Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said earlier this month. "It would be almost biblical to think we would be protected...
...about to accept that the avian-flu virus could augur the end of a tradition. But like poultry farmers everywhere in France, the Laffittes feel as if they are fighting two battles these days. And both their opponents are unpredictable. One fight, of course, is against the highly pathogenic h5n1 strain of avian flu, which reached France last month. So far, the only infection of commercial birds has been in the Dombes wetlands of the Ain region near Lyon, around 600 km to the east of the Landes. Several dozen wild birds have died of the infection in Ain. Could...
Currently, though no human cases have been found in Europe or the United States, the World Health Organization reported at least 92 confirmed human fatalities from the H5N1 flu virus—mostly in southeast Asia and China as well as Iraq and Turkey. The virus has already been found in commercial poultry in Asia, and, as of last Thursday, for the first time in Europe on a French turkey farm...