David Nabarro
David Nabarro
Dr. David Nabarrois a medical doctor who is organising the United Nations' response to Ebola...
believe case hope spread starting
We believe that it is starting to spread into Africa. I do hope that the Malawi case is not H5N1. If they are, then it's very serious.
african contribute countries hope nations partners react resources system united
African countries and the United Nations system must contribute resources to make up for this, in the hope that development partners will react rapidly.
hopeful lack pandemic scope
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.
dying disease chance
There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami.
bird flu disease
We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.
country needs world
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.
important clarity results
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.
team delay viruses
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.
people maps flu
The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.
moving ebola effort
This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.
keys people bird
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.
moving europe sea
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.
against battle bird flu losing nasty particular
We are losing the battle against this particular avian influenza outbreak. It is a very nasty bird flu virus.