Bird Flu Interview Extras
Here are a couple of clips from my interview with John Weaver from the Food and Agriculture Organization.
In this clip, he tells me what makes it particularly difficult to contain the virus in Indonesia.
In this clip, I’d asked if culling is an effective strategy for containing the disease in Indonesia.
Click here to listen to a clip from Georg Petersen, the World Health Organization's representative in Indonesia. I had asked him first if Indonesia's political environment makes it a more likely candidate to spawn a pandemic strain, and then asked if the recent decentralization of power from Jakarta to the provincial govenment made it harder to contain the disease.
In this clip, he tells me what makes it particularly difficult to contain the virus in Indonesia.
In this clip, I’d asked if culling is an effective strategy for containing the disease in Indonesia.
Click here to listen to a clip from Georg Petersen, the World Health Organization's representative in Indonesia. I had asked him first if Indonesia's political environment makes it a more likely candidate to spawn a pandemic strain, and then asked if the recent decentralization of power from Jakarta to the provincial govenment made it harder to contain the disease.
posted by Chad at 8:58 AM
6 Comments:
Dear Chad
I just discovered your blog after a mention on Fluwikie.com. First of all, I have to say that your work is invaluable for those of us concerned about a pandemic. Sometimes it feels like no one in the western media is paying attention to what is going on.
That said I have been wondering about your perspective on the media coverage given to the latest outbreak. Is it being covered in the Indonesian press? As for here in the states, there is almost no coverage of what is happening in Indonesia. Some have commented that after last springs outbreaks with no resulting pandemic, editors are staying clear of covering H5N1. I just wondered if you have support from your editors at NPR? Also do other western reporters that you run into comment on whether their reports are getting air time?
Again, thank you for providing such invaluable information.
Hi Chad,
Is there anyway of knowing if samples are being taken before suspected bird flu victims are given Tamiflu? And if samples are taken before Tamiflu, are the people taking samples sophisticated enough to do it correctly?
Greetings, Chad!
There seems to be no recent H5N1 news from the WHO out of Indonesia, in spite of some fairly large groups of human suspects in Sulawesi, Garut and North Sumatra.
The latest officially-confirmed human case died on August 17. At almost 4 weeks since the last confirmed Indonesian case, it's a new record that doesn't fit at all with the news of so many new suspects.
Do you have any sense of what's happening?
Thanks for all you do!!
MomCares (from Current Events' Flu Clinic)
I read your voanews article and wondered if you had any other information from the meeting which you could not fit in that article. Did it feel positive?
Hello -
Yes, anonymous, Indonesian press has rigorously covered bird flu outbreaks here. I'd like to be clear that I am working as a freelancer here, so when I talk behind my "editors'" backs, I'm being artfully vague because I have many. So please don't take my complaints about the news market to be directly directed toward NPR. There is a very good article recently which explores 'bird flu fatigue' here. Journalists and even health workers seem to be a little tired of talking about it, though human infections keep popping up. At the last press conference with Mr. Nabarro, I heard many complaints from journalists that there was nothing new to report and that it's getting hard to write about bird flu in 'interesting' ways. I would direct you to Geoff Thompson's reports for the ABC (Aussie radio like NPR) and Shawn Donovan’s writing for the Financial Times - good examples of serious bird flu reporting. I take the subject seriously, of course, but I am often forced to cover the biggest story of the day - there are many here - and bird flu does not always win, I'm afraid.
baishania [url=http://wiki.openqa.org/display/~buy-cipro-without-no-prescription-online]Buy Cipro without no prescription online[/url] [url=http://wiki.openqa.org/display/~buy-codeine-no-prescription-online]Buy Codeine no prescription online[/url]
Post a Comment
<< Home