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STORY: FAO / BIRD FLU
TRT: :40
SOURCE: PAHO / FLEISHMAN– HILLARD HANDOUT / CDC/ UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: FILE
FILE – CDC - 2008, CDC CENTER ATLANTA, GEORGIA
1. Med shot, lab worker
2. Med shot, lab worker's hands
FILE – CDC - 2008, CDC CENTER ATLANTA, GEORGIA
3. Microscope shots, H5N1 strain of bird flu
FILE -UNICEF- 3 APRIL 2008, DHAKA, BANGLADESH
4. Pan left, woman feeding caged chickens
5. Med shot, woman washing hands
FILE – PAHO - 11, 12 MAY 2009, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
6. Med shot, doctor doing a swab test on a patient
7. Various shot, doctor handling sample
8. FILE – FLEISHMAN – HILLARD HANDOUT – 2005
9. Various shots, production of antiviral drug Tamiflu
The United Nations food agency (FAO) issued a new warning today that said bird flu viruses continue to pose a serious threat to human and animal health, adding they will pose a greater risk during the upcoming flu season.
To address the issue, FAO has committed $2 million of emergency funding supplemented by over $5 million from USAID to kick-start H7N9 response efforts. USAID support has enabled FAO to help countries at risk dramatically improve surveillance capacities.
FAO and USAID have stressed that more work is required. In the short term this includes continued, targeted surveillance and trace back throughout the production and marketing system, contingency planning and compensation scheme development.
In the longer-term, FAO and USAID are urging countries to invest in improving the way they market and sell poultry.
