David Nabarro
David Nabarro
Dr. David Nabarrois a medical doctor who is organising the United Nations' response to Ebola...
causes changing increasing pandemic risk simply telling virus
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.
deal last ready truly
The last thing I want is to be truly alarmist. But the world is not really ready to deal with an avian pandemic.
expect next pandemic time
We expect the next influenza pandemic to come at any time now.
against cannot pandemic until vaccine virus
We cannot have a vaccine against a pandemic virus until the pandemic virus appears.
african definitely emerged found situation virus
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.
dangers diseased fully knew knowledge somehow turned village
The village knew about the dangers from these diseased birds, but somehow that knowledge wasn't turned fully into practice.
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.
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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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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.
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.
careful money preparing process require work
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.
interval months perhaps quantity reasonable six until
And then there will be an interval of perhaps six months until we have a reasonable quantity of vaccine.
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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 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.