David Nabarro
David Nabarro
Dr. David Nabarrois a medical doctor who is organising the United Nations' response to Ebola...
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We expect the next influenza pandemic to come at any time now.
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The virus now has very definitely found its way into the African subcontinent, and we have a different situation that has emerged with even more H5N1 in our world.
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The village knew about the dangers from these diseased birds, but somehow that knowledge wasn't turned fully into practice.
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The threat is still there. Avian influenza will continue to come to Ukraine ... health services must be ready and prepared to deal with people who are infected with avian flu and to be ready for the possible arrival of human-to-human transmission.
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The $1.9 billion shows that the world cares greatly about the issues we face and that governments want to be sure that there is enough cash available to do everything they have to do to get the current epidemic of bird flu under control and make sure that we can prepare for a human pandemic.
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It is certainly within the next six to 12 months; it could be earlier.
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What we've seen today is that the world really does care and wants to respond effectively to the threat of avian influenza, and a possible human pandemic.
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H5N1 is causing a massive epidemic of lethal avian influenza.
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We cannot have a vaccine against a pandemic virus until the pandemic virus appears.
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There has been a shift in the susceptibility of wild fowl to H5N1. That's something that needs very careful attention if we're going to be ready for possible introduction of the bird flu virus in other locations through wild fowl.
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To scale up vet services is a pretty tall order. They haven't had the level of investment they should have had during the last three or four decades. And you can't suddenly turn a switch to get vet services working well. You have got to train the vets. You have to build the systems.
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We viewed this as the beginning. I'm not for a minute suggesting that the amounts of money we are talking about at the Beijing meet are all that's going to be needed.
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Unfortunately I can't give you any precise information as to when the mutation of H5N1 to a form that can be transmitted between humans will actually take place.
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It simply is telling us that the virus may be changing the way it interacts with humans. It does not tell us that the risk of a mutation that causes the pandemic is increasing or decreasing.