GENEVA (Reuters) – A World Health Organization official on Thursday called for stronger surveillance in animals for H5N1 bird flu in order to curb its spread.
“What we really need globally, in the U.S. and abroad, is much stronger surveillance in animals, in wild birds, in poultry, in animals that are known to be susceptible to infection…,” WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove told an online press conference.
(Reporting by Emma Farge and Mariam Sunny)
