No room for complacency about bird flu - experts
Some success has been achieved in reducing avian influenza outbreaks in poultry and humans, but the world must still be prepared to tackle an influenza pandemic, experts at an international conference in Egypt have said.
Many Egyptians keep and raise domestic poultry, making it difficult to eradicate bird flu completely though Egypt has made good progress in reducing outbreaks in poultry and humans. (Image: Martina Fuchs/IRIN)
“Things are a lot better now than they were when we started this work in 2005 but they are not good enough. We are still not sufficiently prepared to properly bring a pandemic under control quickly,” David Nabarro, senior UN system coordinator for avian and human influenza, told IRIN.
Nabarro said it was especially difficult to get government departments other than Health Ministries to work on a pandemic, and greater international cooperation was needed.
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