France conducts bird flu prevention exercises
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1. Pan right to poultry shed
2. Journalists disembarking from media buses
3. Poultry shed
4. Various police monitoring area
5. Various veterinarians cordoning off and disinfecting area
6. Close up sign, "entrance forbidden".
7. Wide shot, media preparing to enter shed
8. Photographers entering shed
9. Vet climbing over fence into poultry area
10. Various vets taking samples from chicken
11. Chickens in pen
12. Close up chicken
13. Vet returning chicken to pen after sample
14. SOUNDBITE: (French) Francois Lucas, Deputy Security Prefect, Brittany:
"With this exercise we are reassuring the people and showing them that we are able in the best timing to isolate the bird flu case, to deal with it, to confine the case in order to avoid it spreading to the whole farm".
15. Vet plucking feathers from chicken before sampling
16. SOUNDBITE: (French) Francois Lucas, Deputy Security Prefect, Brittany:
"There are 60 dead in South East Asia, in four states of South East Asia, out of two and a half (b) billion inhabitants. There is really nothing to be worried about. And when we see the level of sanitary protection done by the farmers and we see the readiness of the government, there is no reason to be worried".
17. Pan right to vet putting on boots
18. Vet walking with blood samples talking to media
STORYLINE:
France's readiness to handle an outbreak of bird flu was tested on Thursday in a two-day exercise in the country's primary poultry region.
The simulation was the third conducted in the Brittany area, but the first time it was open to the media.
Veterinarians dressed in protective yellow suits carried out blood sampling on birds at a farm in Kergloff, a village in the heart of Brittany where 40 per cent of France's poultry production is based.
They vets took blood from a number of chickens before taking the samples to a local laboratory, one of two housed in the region.
The exercises were organised by local authorities back in January this year, before the latest bird flu scare, as part of an ongoing drill to test emergency response rates to a range of disease outbreaks.
According to Francois Lucas, the Deputy Prefect of Security in the region, the sanitary measures already undertaken by farmers combined with the government's readiness means "there is no reason to be worried".
Similar drills were carried out in 2003 and 2004.
Health experts fear that the virus could mutate into a form that is easily transmissible between humans, possibly causing a global pandemic.
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