A lot has to do with the trust level between the public and government. We are very lucky in the United States in that the public does believe what the government says.

Countries have far exceeded what is science-based and they have further complicated the losses to the industry.

We have very good surveillance here so it can be contained, even if we are repeatedly ‘invaded’ by the virus.

We are really not dealing with a backyard operation.

We are dealing with a new continent.

Hopefully, we can contain it within Nigeria. Just to deal with the whole continent of Africa, I don’t know where we are going to get the people to help us.

The significance is that it is a completely new continent that we need to be looking at.

French authorities should be encouraged for reporting this so quickly and this allows them, as well as local farmers, to take extra monitoring precautions.