Avian Flu: An Economic Assessment for Selected Developing Countries in Asia
Verbiest, Jean-Pierre A.; Castillo, Charissa N. | March 2004
Abstract
The purpose of this brief is to provide a preliminary economic assessment of avian flu on developing Asia.
The outbreak of avian flu in developing Asia in late 2003 to early 2004, following the scare caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in early 2003, attracted attention from policy makers, the international community, and the media. While suppression of information about avian flu in its early stages in Thailand had parallels with the experience of People's Republic of China with SARS, all stakeholders were very alert on avian flu and corrective actions were immediately put in place like the culling of chickens on a widespread scale, monitoring of humans, and introducing safeguard measures at airports.
Partly as a result of these measures, the hysteria associated with SARS was largely absent with avian flu despite the repeated warnings of the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organisation about the dangers of widespread contagion. To date, the lessons of SARS control have been internalized, and by and large, there has been little panic over avian flu, an important reason being avian flu has so far been largely confined to poultry. Relatively few humans have been affected by the virus, with a small number of reported deaths.
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Verbiest, Jean-Pierre A.; Castillo, Charissa N.. 2004. Avian Flu: An Economic Assessment for Selected Developing Countries in Asia. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1474. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
1655-5260
Keywords
Agriculture
Health
Health Impacts
Public Health
Sustainable agriculture
Commercial agriculture
Public Health Care
Education, Health and Social Protection
Access to Health Services
Health Aspects of Poverty
Health Objectives
Diseases
Agricultural education
Sustainable development
Environmental management
Disease Control
Prenatal Care
Safety Education
Water Quality
Animal Diseases
Agricultural diversification
Agricultural resource
Farm produce
Land capability for agriculture
Food Supply
Rural land use
Technological innovations
Agricultural innovations
Farm supply industry
Natural resource
Adaptive natural resource management
Produce trade
Poor
Price Indexes
Intergrated rural development
Cost and standard of living
Population
Social work with rural women
Water resources development
Sanitation systems
Prevention of disease
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