Dr. Nabarro
Dr. Nabarro
sharing
I don't know why they are not sharing those samples.
sooner
Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.
among easily mutations needed
Only two mutations are needed for it to become easily transmissible among humans.
call challenges dramatic face quite technical
Some of the challenges we face now are really quite dramatic and call for a lot of technical expertise.
certainly next six within wrong
It is certainly within the next six to 12 months. And who knows, we've been wrong on other things, it could be earlier.
excellent saw work
I saw excellent work being done by Thailand.
alert cannot high might mutant pandemic remain starting sustained turn unpleasant virus
Unfortunately, we cannot tell when the mutation might happen, or where it might happen, or how unpleasant the mutant virus will turn out to be. Nevertheless, we must remain on high alert for the possibility of sustained human-to-human transmission and of a pandemic starting at any time.
afford bird cannot cases disease fact flu human intervals means quite regular reported
We cannot afford to be in any way complacent. The fact that there are human cases of bird flu being reported at quite regular intervals now means that the disease is still quite serious.
believe birds moving next predicting quite scale tricky wild
Because it is moving and because we believe wild birds are implicated, predicting where it's going to flare up next is a very tricky thing to do, and being able to know the scale of the flare-up is also quite tricky.
expected move quite
We expected it to move, but not any of us thought it would move quite like this.
aware countries money move poor
Fingers-crossed, it's going to be a good-sized pledge. I think most of the countries are aware of the seriousness and the need to move money to poor countries.
Fingers-crossed it's going to be a good-sized pledge.
against bird certainly disturbing generally human pushing serious
Something generally disturbing is going on at the moment. It's certainly in the bird world, and it's pushing up against the human world in a serious way.
spreading throughout
Avian influenza is a big threat. It is spreading throughout the world.