43 Quotes by David Nabarro

This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

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.

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.

We did discuss in China as well the importance of trying to restrict movements of chickens from areas that are infected, including across borders.

The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.

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.

H5N1 is causing a massive epidemic of lethal avian influenza.

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.

Unless we are working as one, we don't get a good result.