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STORY: GENEVA / BRIEFING
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SOURCE: CH UNTV
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
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DATELINE: 5 APRIL 2013, PALAIS DE NATIONS UNITED NATIONS GENEVA HEADQUARTERS
FILE – RECENT, UNITED NATIONS GENEVA HEADQUARTERS
1. Exterior, Palais de Nations, United Nations Geneva Headquarters
5 APRIL 2013, PALAIS DES NATIONS, UNITED NATIONS GENEVA HEADQUARTERS
2. Wide shot, Press Conference Room, Palais des Nations, Geneva.
3. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH), Gregory Härtl, Spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO):
“We have 14 cases in a large geographical area. We have no sign of any epidemiological linkage between the confirmed cases. And we have no sign of sustained human-to-human transmission.”
4. Cutaway, table of journalists, Press Conference Room, Palais des Nations, Geneva.
5. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH), Gregory Härtl, Spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO):
“An environmental source can be animals but it also can be areas surrounding animals such as in the case of H5N1, where you have poultry markets. The virus often can attach itself to dust particles, so dust particles can be a transmitter of the virus, so to speak. This is why all avenues have to be followed up, and this is being done very actively.”
6. Cutaway, table of journalists, Press Conference Room, Palais des Nations, Geneva.
7. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH), Marixie Mercado , Spokesperson for the United
Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF):
“The needs are rising exponentially, and we are broke. In concrete terms, this means that by June, we will stop delivering 3.5 million litres of water every day to Za’atri camp. Jordan, by the way is the world’s fourth most water-scarce country; so summertime will be particularly intense. This means we won’t be able to open the third school we are building at Za’atri because we simply don’t have the funds to cover the teachers’ salaries, the textbooks, the furniture and the running costs of the school.”
FILE – RECENT, UNITED NATIONS GENEVA HEADQUARTERS
8. Exterior, Palais de Nations, United Nations Geneva Headquarters
Chinese authorities have reported fourteen cases of a new strain of bird flu to the World Health Organization, and six confirmed deaths from the disease.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told a news conference in Geneva Friday (5 April) that there were no apparent links between the fourteen cases, and no evidence of sustained human to human transmission.
He said the Chinese authorities were monitoring 400 people who had been in contact with the patients.
Hartl explained that the virus could be spread from animals, or from environmental factors such as dust particles in the atmosphere.
This was why a number of possible sources were being investigated.
At the same briefing, UN agencies warned that a funding crisis could cripple their humanitarian operations in Syria.
Marixie Mercado, spokesperson for UNICEF, said that unless new funding was provided quickly, UNICEF would be unable to deliver critical support to Syrians who have fled for their lives to Jordan.
Mercado said there were now almost a quarter of a million Syrian child refugees in Jordan.
More than 2,000 have been arriving every day since the beginning of the year, with numbers expected to double by July, and triple by December.
"The numbers are rising exponentially, and we are broke," Mercado said.
The UNICEF spokeswoman said that by June agency will no longer be able to deliver 3.5 million litres of water every day to its Zaâtari camp.
The funding crisis will halt the building of a third school because of lack of money for teachers' salaries, textbooks, furniture and running costs, resulting in the Jordanian Ministry of Education having to turn away Syrian refugee students.
UNICEF would also be unable to provide water, sanitation, education, immunization, and nutrition support to two new camps due to open in the coming weeks.
