Shigeru Omi Chickens Quotations

Surveillance is crucial because, in my view, the outbreaks affecting transmission among chickens were there for some time without being noticed.

We have to step up improvement of the primitive farming practice in China's rural regions, especially the backyard feeding of chickens and ducks in many rural households.

We cannot kill all the chickens and ducks to prevent bird flu from spreading among them and to humans; therefore, we have to make sure the chickens, ducks and humans do not mingle together.

The boy that I met, he did not know anything about this. For him, chickens are friends, so he touched (them).

In my view this is connected by the differences in the farming practices. In the West farming practices are well controlled -- ducks, chickens and humans do not mingle together.