David Nabarro
David Nabarro
Dr. David Nabarrois a medical doctor who is organising the United Nations' response to Ebola...
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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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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 cannot have a vaccine against a pandemic virus until the pandemic virus appears.
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We expect the next influenza pandemic to come at any time now.
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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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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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The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.
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We did discuss in China as well the importance of trying to restrict movements of chickens from areas that are infected, including across borders.
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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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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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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.