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The Russian news agency RIA-novosti do not seem to translate every news article they have in every language and often publish more in french than in english. This is probably an heritage of the communist era when French was teach as internationnal second language instead of English.
Here is a machine translation of a recent interesting article.
-Ming
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Machine translated from
http://fr.rian.ru/world/20060822/52966993.html
A pandemia of avian flu would be a test for humanity's global solidarity(experts)
10:44 | 22 08/ 2006
HONGKONG, August 22 - RIA Novosti. A pandemia of avian flu would be a test for global solidarity of humanity, Richard Coker and Sandra Mounier-Jack write, from London School off Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), in an article which will be published Tuesday in the medical review British Lancet, announce South China morning post.
After having analyzed the means whose the countries had Asia to fight a beginning of pandemia, these experts noted that without mutual aid much countries would not be capable to face the situation.
“New pandemia would be a true test of total solidarity. If it began tomorrow, the world could not be shown with the height ", the authors of the study underline.
Richard Coker and Sandra Mounier-Jack raise obvious disproportion in the levels of preparation for a pandemia between the rich and poor countries. Owing to the fact that the rich governments constitute stocks of Tamiflu, the most effective drug to date counters the avian flu, it would unequally be distributed between the inhabitants of the Earth.
According to the study, best prepared to face a beginning of epidemic in Asia and Oceania are Hongkong, Australia and New Zealand. China it also instigated the work preliminary and put the accent on the improvement of the detection of the disease and the increase in the number of beds, but if a pandemia is declared in the short run, it will not be fully ready.
Virus H5N1 was discovered for the first time in 1997 in Hongkong where the disease had killed 18 people. At the time the authorities of the city had succeeded in damming up the blaze of infection.
In 2003, the disease reappeared. Since the virus of the avian flu contaminated 235 people all over the world and in killed 138.
Here is a machine translation of a recent interesting article.
-Ming
_______________
Machine translated from
http://fr.rian.ru/world/20060822/52966993.html
A pandemia of avian flu would be a test for humanity's global solidarity(experts)
10:44 | 22 08/ 2006
HONGKONG, August 22 - RIA Novosti. A pandemia of avian flu would be a test for global solidarity of humanity, Richard Coker and Sandra Mounier-Jack write, from London School off Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), in an article which will be published Tuesday in the medical review British Lancet, announce South China morning post.
After having analyzed the means whose the countries had Asia to fight a beginning of pandemia, these experts noted that without mutual aid much countries would not be capable to face the situation.
“New pandemia would be a true test of total solidarity. If it began tomorrow, the world could not be shown with the height ", the authors of the study underline.
Richard Coker and Sandra Mounier-Jack raise obvious disproportion in the levels of preparation for a pandemia between the rich and poor countries. Owing to the fact that the rich governments constitute stocks of Tamiflu, the most effective drug to date counters the avian flu, it would unequally be distributed between the inhabitants of the Earth.
According to the study, best prepared to face a beginning of epidemic in Asia and Oceania are Hongkong, Australia and New Zealand. China it also instigated the work preliminary and put the accent on the improvement of the detection of the disease and the increase in the number of beds, but if a pandemia is declared in the short run, it will not be fully ready.
Virus H5N1 was discovered for the first time in 1997 in Hongkong where the disease had killed 18 people. At the time the authorities of the city had succeeded in damming up the blaze of infection.
In 2003, the disease reappeared. Since the virus of the avian flu contaminated 235 people all over the world and in killed 138.
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