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Jokuhan myi ulkomaisia kurkkuja kotimaisina, oli joutsenmerkit ja kaikki.

Jos haluat olla varma ettet syö lintu-influenssa saastuttamaa tuotetta jätä kaikki kanatuotteet pois lautaselta.

Food safety group to issue warning on chickens
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Financial Times
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Europeans should avoid eating raw eggs and cook chicken carefully to cut down any risk of contracting bird flu, according to an advisory note expected on Wednesday from the European food safety authority (Efsa).

The precautionary warning comes as the €15bn European poultry industry struggles to contain a sharp decline in sales because of consumers' concerns about the spreading bird flu. In Italy chicken consumption fell about 40 per cent last month and Italian farmers on Tuesday held demonstrations to reassure the public about eating chicken.

The Parma-based food safety agency, responsible for providing scientific advice on food in the European Union, says proper cooking should prevent the disease from entering the human food chain. However, it also recognises that the current scientific evidence is not sufficient to rule out the possibility that the deadly virus could spread to people through food.

Herman Koëter, Efsa's director of science, said: "We have no proof at all that people can contract the virus through the digestive route. However, we cannot exclude that theoretically it would be possible for that to happen."

He added: "Theoretically, it could be possible that, if you eat the raw blood of an infected chicken, the virus is then not totally killed in the stomach.''

Efsa says its warning is in line with the views of the World Health Organisation and other scientific organisations, as well as standard advice to combat more widespread diseases like salmonella, of which there were 135,000 cases in the EU in 2003.

The disease has hit primarily Asia, where it has decimated poultry stocks and killed more than 60 people. But following a recent outbreak in Turkey, it has been gradually spreading across Europe. The EU is introducing a ban on imports of captive wild birds after a parrot died of the H5N1 strain while in quarantine in the UK.

However, Mr Koëter expressed optimism that European farmers were sufficiently prepared to quarantine and eradicate rapidly infected birds and thereby reduce the need for mass poultry cullings. "A few years ago, we did not have in place the bio-safety measures that we now have. We will probably not avoid it (bird flu) but I think we have learnt and can much better isolate it.''

On Tuesday, France joined Germany and a handful of other European countries in imposing new curbs on farmers and ordering that poultry be kept indoors in 21 French regions considered most at risk.

Mr Koëter also argued that part of the reason for putting the onus on proper hygiene and cooking, on top of a warning against having direct contact with birds, was that this might prove a more effective way to prevent the disease than vaccination.

While it is understandable that governments are trying to stockpile antiviral drugs and speed up vaccine production, Mr Koëter downplayed expectations that such measures would be sufficient to counter a flu pandemic.

The H5N1 virus, should it begin to infect humans, may move too quickly for vaccination to serve a purpose. He said: "The vaccine has not been tested in humans and the virus can mutate, so a vaccine is probably not the life-saver that people expect It is much better from the start to avoid any unhygienic practices.''

Copyright 2005 Financial Times

Eiköhän se kananliha pidä kuumentaa muutenkin salmonellavaaran takia. Enpä ole raakaa kanaa muistaakseni koskaan syönyt.

Ja että raakoja kananmunia.... YÖÖÖÖÖÖK.....

kaikkien maallinen vaellus päättyy kuitenkin, oli lintuinfluenssaa tai ei. Olennaisempaa on miettiä mitä sitten tapahtuu.

Ainakin tietyt lääkefirman varmasti hykertelevät, ihmiset ostavat flunssalääkkeetkin (!) loppuun.