David Nabarro
David Nabarro
Dr. David Nabarrois a medical doctor who is organising the United Nations' response to Ebola...
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.
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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.
moving ebola effort
This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.
people maps flu
The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.
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.
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.
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.
bird flu disease
We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.
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.
expect next pandemic time
We expect the next influenza pandemic to come at any time now.
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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.
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.
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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.
across areas chickens china discuss importance including movements restrict trying
We did discuss in China as well the importance of trying to restrict movements of chickens from areas that are infected, including across borders.