Ce n'est un secret pour personne

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L'agence Russe Interfax, dans un récent communiqué du 14 mars 2006, nous apprend que le politicien russe Gennady Zyuganov (Président du Parti communiste de la Fédération de Russie) accuse un Etat influent sur le cours des affaires de la planète d'avoir diffusé ("spread" en anglais) le virus H5N1 de la grippe aviaire en Europe et en Russie:

Info ou intox ?!?

En tout cas, ce qui est sûr, c'est que le site "Prevention and control of the avian influenza in the United States", hébergé par le Collège pour l'Agriculture et les Ressources Naturelles (Université du Maryland à College Parks), nous fournit un document intitulé:

Prevention and control of Avian Influenza in the US
Program Director: PEREZ, Daniel R.
Co-Program Director: SLEMONS, Richard D.

qui nous apprend ce que nous savons déjà, à savoir, je cite:

"Poultry production in the US has increased from 3 billion to 7 billion broilers since the 1960s, becoming the most important source of meat protein in the human diet in many countries around the world. US poultry production amounts to approximately 18% of total world production. Effective detection, control and prevention of avian influenza are of the utmost importance to maintain the US leadership in world poultry product markets and such efforts will make a significant contribution towards national food security".

L'hypothèse d'une  guerre commerciale de très grande ampleur est envisageable... Allons sur le site "Flu Wiki" (désolé les francophones purs et durs, c'est encore une fois en anglais, mais bon...), et lisons:

Je cite (et c'est moi qui souligne):

"The  FAO estimates that around 50% of chickens are now raised in intensive confinments in Asia, especially around the major urban areas. Yet different sources seem to give a different picture. Singapore, to take a small example, has an estimated population of 2.1 million chickens (sustained by an importation of 120,000 birds per day from Malaysia). These birds are apparently concentrated in only seven chicken facilities—meaning an average of 300,000 chickens on one farm. In some areas, on the other hand, including even the highly industrialized Guangdong province of China, 60 to 80 percent of domestic poultry production still originates in small, ‘non-modern’, family farms. The most significant Asian players in the emerging global poultry economy are Thailand and China. The FAO states that these two countries account for fully one forth of the global poultry trade. According the Thai Broiler Association, Thailand was the World’s 4th largest poultry exporter in 2003, selling 540,000 tons and generating some 1.2 billion US dollars. Up to 90% of Thai chicken production is exported to the European Union and Japan.

The importance of the poultry industry is even greater in China, that sold some 600,000 tons in that same year and where poultry production had been growing [note: word document] around 6% per year, especially in the provinces of Shangdong, Sichuan and Guangdong. Poultry confinements supply a burgeoning internal consumer market fueled by growth in China’s export industries, but also had begun to participate in a promising trade in poultry products abroad, especially to Japan, the European Union and Russia. It is important to keep in mind, however, that China only supplies 21% of its own internal market and that the US is the major supplier of poultry and poultry products to China.

However, these emerging export markets have been severely restricted since about 2003 due to increasing quarantine restrictions, first due to SARS and then Avian Flu, particularly the dangerous H5N1 virus. Governments of both Thailand and  China have been struggling to control negative information concerning disease in their poultry industry in the hope of maintaining their growing participation in these international markets".

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