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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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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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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There is too much H5N1 virus in very close contact with humans in this region. We need, in a painstaking and careful way, to reduce the opportunities for this virus to be jumping across into the human population. That will in turn reduce the likelihood of a major pandemic.
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It is certainly within the next six to 12 months; it could be earlier.
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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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We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.
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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.
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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.