David Nabarro
David Nabarro
Dr. David Nabarrois a medical doctor who is organising the United Nations' response to Ebola...
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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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We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.
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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.
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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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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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It is certainly within the next six to 12 months; it could be earlier.
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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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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 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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There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami.
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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.
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There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.
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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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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.