The recent Annual Scientific Conference of the Department of Virology, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Cairo University, supported by the IFT Corporation, focused on the current influenza related poultry health problems inEgypt-The first day addressed avian influenza and centred around four presentations - two each from Dr Giovanni Cattoli and Dr llaria Capua. Compared to 2006 per capita meat consumption in 2020 will be 26% higher and much of this increase will come frompoultry consumption. Therefore, in countries like Egypt, where poultry meat is very popular, it is important to keep flocks healthy and in the coming years more and more consumer pressure will require the meat these flocks produce to be as safe as possible. This will inevitably mean more monitoring or surveillance and this will need to be ever more transparent. In addition, good integrated management, which is online, real time and authoritative, will be used more and more.
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