Potential bird flu threat from New York poultry markets

Описание: (3 Feb 2006)

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1. Wide shot exterior La Granja Live Poultry market in the Inwood neighbourhood at the far north end of Manhattan
2. Close up sign
3. Wide shot interior market
4. Close up bird
5. Mid shot pan birds
6. Close up bird taken out of cage to be weighed
7. Mid shot birds in killing and cleaning room, tilt up to show birds
8. Mid shot man throws two freshly killed birds into boiling water for de-feathering
9. SOUNDBITE: (English): Henry Fernandez, Manager, La Granja Vivero (Live Poultry market)
10. Medium shot women cleaning and cutting freshly killed birds
11. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish): Ramon Gomez, customer at La Granja

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12. Mid shot man looking at poultry section of a supermarket
13. Close up packaged poultry in supermarket
14. Mid shot packaged poultry in supermarket

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15. Close up birds in La Granja live poultry market
16. Close up, tilt up, birds in live poultry market

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17. SOUNDBITE: (English): Dr. Ron DeHaven, Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, a division of the US Department of Agriculture:

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18. Wide shot exterior live poultry market on the lower east side of Manhattan (different from the one above), zoom in to show rooster walking around

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19. Mid shot US Senate hearing room
20. Mid shot Julie Louise Gerberding before panel
21. SOUNDBITE: (English): Julie Louise Gerberding, Director, US Centers for Disease Control

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18. Close up exterior live poultry market on the lower east side of Manhattan (same one as shot 18), birds in cages visible through glass, zoom out to show woman on street walking past

STORYLINE:

The odour is the first clue, a sharp barnyard smell that seems out of place on a stretch of the upper Manhattan in New York City. Hand-lettered signs advertise in English and Spanish -- live chickens, ducks, quail, pheasants.

While most Americans buy their birds mass-produced and shrink-wrapped, thousands of chickens and other fowl are killed fresh every day at hundreds of live poultry markets around the country, with roughly 90 such places in the New York City area alone.

And some fear such markets could introduce the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain into the United States.

Dr. Ron DeHaven, Administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, said live poultry markets are a bird flu threat because of the possibility that birds, equipment and people from many different small farms could mix together and spread disease more rapidly.

Elizabeth Krushinskie, vice president for food safety at the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association, a trade group that represents mass producers, said in a phone interview with the Associated Press that the live markets "absolutely" pose more of a bird flu threat than big processors do. "The birds come from a variety of different flock sources," Krushinskie said. "They mix birds from all different origins together, birds of different species - ducks, chickens, turkeys." By contrast, she said, mass producers of poultry control the process from beginning to end and "there's no commingling of flocks."

In New York, state officials insist the markets are monitored so closely as to eliminate the risk, but some customers are staying away because of the bird flu scare.













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