Dr. Nabarro
Dr. Nabarro
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.
expected move quite
We expected it to move, but not any of us thought it would move quite like this.
money needed people services
Most people see this as a long-term challenge. The short-term money is needed because we have some services that are stretched, but we need a long-term approach.
among easily mutations needed
Only two mutations are needed for it to become easily transmissible among humans.
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.
Fingers-crossed it's going to be a good-sized pledge.
bird cash flu last sad since worried
I'm sad to say we have not had a significant influx of cash for bird flu over the last two years since we've really started to get worried about it.
chinese countries freely importance material notion number occasions putting samples share view
Their view is they would like to feel that other countries who have samples or material would share them freely with Chinese scientists. They are putting a lot of importance on the notion of reciprocity (...), which they used to me on a number of occasions and I don't know what it means.
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.
sooner
Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.
sharing
I don't know why they are not sharing those samples.
countries effective help programs required
They're what's required to help countries put in place their influenza programs and to get much better and effective control. They're also monies that are required by the international organizations.