OTTAWA (Reuters) - Fears of a bird flu pandemic among people has seriously hampered efforts to prevent the spread of an outbreak among birds because not enough money is being spent on prevention and surveillance, two leading food health officials said on Monday.
Jacques Diouf, director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, said many people seemed more focused on a possible human pandemic than on containing the outbreak among domestic poultry, which started almost two years ago in South-East Asia.
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