Bird Flu
Cost-effective disease prevention includes closing or regulating wildlife markets
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 28th, 2007
Instead of attacking wild birds for our new disease problems, a far more cost effective approach should focus on keeping wild animals separate in the places where they often commingle: in wildlife markets and international trade, according to wildlife health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a recent issue of the prestigious Journal of Wildlife Diseases.
“This is an ounce of prevention that we really need to use in trading hubs where human commerce of wild animals allows for the spread of diseases,” said Dr. William Karesh, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Field...
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