David Nabarro
David Nabarro
Dr. David Nabarrois a medical doctor who is organising the United Nations' response to Ebola...
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The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.
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We are losing the battle against this particular avian influenza outbreak. It is a very nasty bird flu virus.
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There is too much H5N1 virus in very close contact with humans in this region. We need, in a painstaking and careful way, to reduce the opportunities for this virus to be jumping across into the human population. That will in turn reduce the likelihood of a major pandemic.
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That outbreak was noted by the villagers, but was not handled because they didn't report it in time. We have to work harder on helping to convert knowledge into practice.
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There will be an influenza pandemic sometime, but we don't know when. It could be mild, it could be severe, it could be extremely severe.
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And then there will be an interval of perhaps six months until we have a reasonable quantity of vaccine.
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Act as though a pandemic influenza will start tomorrow. Don't think we can wait around and not worry it won't start for six months or one year. Once, it starts it is too late to prepare.
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The more I find out about an influenza pandemic and the lack of readiness, the more I am concerned. But I am more hopeful about the scope for international cooperation.
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The money is only the beginning. The process of preparing is going to require very careful monitoring and review, and that's the work ahead.
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African countries and the United Nations system must contribute resources to make up for this, in the hope that development partners will react rapidly.
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I think there is a reasonably good chance ... that people will congeal around a set of basic principles and elements for what will become an international program which can then be presented to the donor community over the next couple of months.
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The pace of fatalities appears to have fallen off quickly. But it is as yet unclear whether this is because the virus has modified or Turkey's approach has been successful.
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Unless we are working as one, we don't get a good result.
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The last thing I want is to be truly alarmist. But the world is not really ready to deal with an avian pandemic.