David Nabarro
David Nabarro
Dr. David Nabarrois a medical doctor who is organising the United Nations' response to Ebola...
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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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The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.
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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 village knew about the dangers from these diseased birds, but somehow that knowledge wasn't turned fully into practice.
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H5N1 is causing a massive epidemic of lethal avian influenza.
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It may be more important to concentrate on the essentials of life for those who are living than it is to focus on the treatment of those who are sick.
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I just think that every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1, to try to make sure that they don't get caught unawares and find that it gets into their poultry populations without knowing.
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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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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.
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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 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.
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This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.
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The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.