Tourism Emergency Responses Network (TERN), established in early 2006 with PATA as a founding member, has released the second issue of its Avian Flu Digest. The network, which aims to assist stakeholders in the tourism sector prepare for a potential avian flu pandemic, highlighted the following ke message:
Avian Flu is a disease essentially impacting fowl.
- Cases of the disease passing from animals to humans are rare.
- No efficient human-to-human transmission strain has developed.
- Public education reduces the risk of avian-to-human transmission.
There is no present threat to tourists and there is no cause for restricting travel.
If travelling to flu-infected localities, the best advice is to avoid contact with live birds of any variety.
The news is quoted from PATA News on 16 August 2006.
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