LONDON (Reuters) - The scare over poultry meat sparked by bird flu has been overdone, particularly in low-risk areas such as Europe, and farmers have paid a very heavy price, analysts and industry officials said on Wednesday.
The shock we are seeing is way out of proportion to the risk. Consumers are not very much at risk from this disease, said Anni McLeod of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
The people least at risk are causing a large proportion of the problem, she told World Poultry 2006, a conference organized by Agra Informa, an agricultural publishing group.
McLeod, a senior officer in livestock policy, cited Europe as one area where the reaction of consumers had been out of proportion, noting how demand fell by 70 percent in Italy after one outbreak.
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed more than 120 people since late 2003, the vast majority in Southeast Asia. Human cases have been linked to direct or indirect contact with diseased birds rather than consumption of poultry.
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