Faced with growing evidence that avian influenza i
Faced with growing evidence that avian influenza is spreading in birds, the World Health Organization on Wednesday signed an agreement with the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding to build up its stockpile of medicines in case of a pandemic in humans.
Under the agreement, Roche will reserve three million treatments of its Tamiflu antiviral medicine for use by the UN agency in case of a worldwide human pandemic of avian flu.
"It&39;s just enough to deal with an initial outbreak," said Jong-Wook Lee, director-general of the WHO. "But clearly this is not enough to deal with a full pandemic."
The agency says only 57 people in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia have died, mainly from contact with infected birds. The virus has killed millions of chickens and led to preventive culling across Asia since late 2003. Sustained human-to-human infection has not yet been recorded. But the World Health Organization warns that bird flu, which first appeared in Hong Kong in 1997, could mutate genetically, making it easier for humans to catch and transmit the disease among themselves.
Signs the disease has spread recently to birds in Siberia and Kazakhstan are adding to concerns, the WHO says. A panel of European Union experts will convene Thursday in Brussels to discuss measures to prevent the spread of bird deaths to European poultry.
When asked whether he thought a widespread outbreak in humans was imminent, Lee said: "We don&39;t know when it will come. But it would be hugely irresponsible if the WHO and member states did not take preventive measures now."
Roche declined to give figures for its stockpiles of Tamiflu.
A spokeswoman for the company, Martina Rupp, said it took from 12 to 18 months to deliver the drug after an order was placed- a relatively long time due to a complicated production process.
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参考译文：鉴于有越来越多的证据表明禽流感正在不断蔓延，世界卫生组织周三与瑞士罗氏制药公司签署协议，要求罗氏增加药物储备以防人类爆发大范围禽流感疫情。按照该协议，为应对可能出现的全球性人类禽流感疫情爆发，罗氏将为世界卫生组织储备300万份达菲（抗病毒药物）以备不时之需。“这仅够满足疫情爆发初期的药物需求，”世界卫生组织总干事李钟郁说，“显然不足以应对疫情全面爆发时的情况。”世界卫生组织称，目前在印度尼西亚、越南、泰国和柬埔寨仅有57人死于禽流感，且死者中主要是因为接触了受感染的禽类而发病。自2003年年底禽流感疫情爆发以来，在亚洲有数百万只鸡死亡，为防止疫情进一步蔓延，对家禽进行了大规模扑杀。现在尚未有持续性人传人感染的报道。不过，世界卫生组织警告称，最早于1997年在香港出现的禽流感病毒可能会发生变异，人类对病毒会更加易感，人传人的几率也会增加。世界卫生组织称，有迹象表明，禽流感最近已蔓延至西伯利亚和哈萨克斯坦，这使人们更加担忧。周四，欧盟专家小组将在布鲁塞尔召开会议，商讨如何防止禽流感疫情蔓延至欧洲，保护当地家禽不受感染。当被问及是否会很快出现大范围人传人禽流感疫情时，李钟郁说，“我们不知道何时会出现，但是如果世界卫生组织及其成员国现在不采取预防措施的话将是极其不负责任的。”罗氏制药公司并未透露储备了多少剂达菲。该公司发言人玛蒂娜·鲁普称，由于达菲生产工艺复杂，在接到订单后需要一到一年半才能交货。
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