New York - 1 June 2015
1. David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola, seated for interview
2. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola:
"It's quite correct, therefore, that people looking at the future security of the human race should be seeing the threat caused by infectious disease as something serious that's got to be taken seriously."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola:
"It's still going on, we've got cases occurring not in huge numbers, but enough to be very disturbing in Sierra Leone and in Guinea right now. Not in Liberia, which has been free of Ebola for some weeks."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola:
"It's serious wherever it occurs, but it is less widespread in Sierra Leone at the moment than it is in Guinea, but I want to stress that even in Guinea, it's only in a small number of prefectures."
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola:
"Let's look at Guinea - there we've got transmission chains that are not fully understood, but the quality of the response in Guinea is strong."
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola:
"In Sierra Leone and Guinea, the situation is troubling to us because the new cases that are appearing, people who are sick with Ebola, are people who we don't know in advance that they have been in contact with people who got the disease. They're coming as a surprise."
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola:
"I, therefore, am of the opinion that if we can maintain attention, focus, and most important, sensitivity to the concerns and anxieties of the communities then we will be able to end the outbreak in the foreseeable future."
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola:
"Some communities see the responders as coming in to disrupt their traditional ways of life and they are not keen to welcome them, so much of the work right now is focusing on sensitive ways of working with local communities."
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16. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola:
"We believe that it's only a matter of weeks before the outbreak is ended in Sierra Leone, and that's because of strong participation of communities, a very coordinated national response and strong leadership."
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