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[Source: Nature, full text: (LINK). Extract, edited.]
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H5N1 surveillance: Shift expertise to where it matters
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Journal name: Nature - Volume: 483, Pages: 534?535 - Date published: (29 March 2012) - DOI: doi:10.1038/483534a - Published online 28 March 2012
Tools and training for responding to diseases such as avian flu must relocate to countries where infections are most likely to emerge, says Jeremy Farrar.
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Journal name: Nature - Volume: 483, Pages: 534?535 - Date published: (29 March 2012) - DOI: doi:10.1038/483534a - Published online 28 March 2012
Tools and training for responding to diseases such as avian flu must relocate to countries where infections are most likely to emerge, says Jeremy Farrar.
Every day on my way to the hospital, I pass streets lined with poultry. The birds disappeared a few years ago, but have gradually returned. This would be of little concern if I was in Europe or North America ? but I work in Vietnam studying emerging pathogens, including the avian influenza virus (H5N1). There is a patient with H5N1 in the hospital as I write. This is a region where the H5N1 virus has killed millions of birds and several people, where SARS and Nipah virus emerged and where the threat of antibiotic and antimalarial drug resistance is growing. Because of this, we have become acutely aware of the continued danger of infectious diseases, and the inadequacies of our current systems for tracking them and responding in a timely fashion.
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