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- Title
Inactivation of Avian Influenza Viruses by Chemical Agents and Physical Conditions: A Review.
- Authors
De Benedictis, P.; Beato, M. S.; Capua, I.
- Abstract
The recent outbreaks of avian influenza (AI) worldwide have highlighted the difficulties in controlling this disease both in developed and in developing countries. Biosecurity is considered the most important tool to prevent and control AI. In certain areas of the world, AI has become endemic and the recent outbreaks in Europe and Africa show that the epidemiological situation is evolving in an unprecedented way. The consequences of this situation are economic losses to the poultry industry, food security issues in developing countries and a serious threat to human health, due to the direct consequences of AI infection in humans, and more alarmingly due to the risk of the generation of a new pandemic virus from the animal reservoir. In this paper, the physical and chemical methods of inactivating AI viruses are reviewed, with particular emphasis on the practicalities of using such methods in the poultry industry.
- Subjects
AVIAN influenza; BIOSECURITY; POULTRY industry; HEALTH; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
Zoonoses & Public Health, 2007, Vol 54, Issue 2, p51
- ISSN
1863-1959
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1863-2378.2007.01029.x