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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (12120)	9/26/2005 1:01:56 PM
From: ACAN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23958

Augustus; NVAX volume slowed just under a M, but is now picking up again. Let's hpoe for some follow through. Allan

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (12120)	9/26/2005 5:43:40 PM
From: Sergio H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23958

Augustus... FAO wants more cash to halt spread of bird flu Mon 26 Sep 2005 ROME, Sept 26 (Reuters) - More money is needed to halt a cycle of bird flu infection in animals that could trigger a pandemic in humans, the U.N. food agency said on Monday. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said its appeal in May for $100 million to fight avian flu in animals for the next three years had received a lukewarm response so far. It said that, without further funding of bird vaccination programmes, "the cycle of bird flu infection that will occur in poultry this winter will not be stopped". "The circulation of so much influenza virus in animals in many countries in close proximity to humans remains a major risk factor that could trigger a pandemic," the FAO said in a statement. Experts fear that the most deadly strain, the H5N1 virus which has the power to kill one out of every two people in infects, could set off a pandemic if it gains the ability to be transmitted easily between humans. Bird flu has killed 65 people in four Asian countries since late 2003 and has been found in birds in Russia and Europe. A 27-year-old Indonesian woman who suffered from bird flu died in a Jakarta hospital on Monday and a five-year-old girl who died last week was suspected to have carried the disease. The virus has spread to 22 of 33 provinces in the Indonesian archipelago, killing more than 9.5 million domestic birds since 2003. "It makes sense to stockpile antiviral drugs to protect humans against a potential avian influenza pandemic, but at the same time we have to contain the virus at source, in animals, to reduce the risk to people," the FAO's chief veterinary officer Joseph Domenech said. The FAO said there was a "small window of opportunity" to reduce levels of infection through vaccination before winter. The group called for international donations to finance vaccination campaigns in Asia and reiterated the need for countries on bird migration routes to set up early warning and surveillance programmes. The FAO specifically mentioned India, Bangladesh, central Europe and the Middle East.