David Nabarro
David Nabarro
Dr. David Nabarrois a medical doctor who is organising the United Nations' response to Ebola...
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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.
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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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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.
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The pace of fatalities appears to have fallen off quickly. But it is as yet unclear whether this is because the virus has modified or Turkey's approach has been successful.
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Unless we are working as one, we don't get a good result.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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The village knew about the dangers from these diseased birds, but somehow that knowledge wasn't turned fully into practice.
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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.