David Nabarro
David Nabarro
Dr. David Nabarrois a medical doctor who is organising the United Nations' response to Ebola...
bird flu disease
We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.
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The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.
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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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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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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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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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There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami.
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Every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1 to be sure they are not caught unawares.
government people challenges
There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.
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What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.
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If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for the virus to spread.
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This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.
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Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks are killed. And we have to limit interaction between humans and birds, which is a huge challenge within an environment where people are used to living very close to their chickens.
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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.