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David Nabarro

(1949–2025) Physician

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David Nabarro was a physician.

Quick Facts About David Nabarro

Born: August 26, 1949
Died: July 26, 2025
Profession: Physician

About David Nabarro

[Wikidata] British medical academic (1949 - 2025)... | [Wikipedia] Sir David Nunes Nabarro was a British Special Envoy on Covid-19 for the World Health Organization. He made his career in the international civil service, working for either the Secretary-General of the United Nations or the Director-General of the World Health Organization. From February 2020, he he

Quotes by David Nabarro

This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

Apocalyptic

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There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the…

Chance

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We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

Bird

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If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great…

Chains

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There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.

Body work

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Every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1 to be sure they are…

Caught

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The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and…

Areas

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Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks…

Bird

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What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control…

Clarity

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The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.

Bunkers

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