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Avian influenza presents a number of unique challenges for the health, agriculture and
trade sectors of both developing and developed countries. The recent epidemic affecting
nine Asian nations is unprecedented in its scale, geographic spread and economic impact.
We argue that the emergence of avian influenza strains with the capacity to spread
internationally, infect humans and disrupt economies, redefines control efforts as global
public goods necessitating concerted international intervention and cooperation. While
international support for emergency response measures is important, sustained
improvements and investments in national disease control systems require that countries
view such activities as investments rather than internationally imposed costs. This
necessitates a reorientation of how WTO sanitary and phytosanitary rules are viewed and
implemented. To ensure that they are not used as protectionist barriers against
agricultural exports from developing countries and that meaningful progress is made in
relation to technical assistance provisions contained in the SPS agreement. The risk to
global economic security and human health posed by avian influenza and similar
transboundary diseases creates an international imperative to address the economic and
political barriers that limit incentives to invest in agricultural disease control systems in
less developed countries.
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