THE UN COORDINATOR FREAKS OUT

David Nabarro, the U.N. coordinator on avian and human influenza/Senior System Coordinator, when asked if a pandemic was inevitiable, recently said "we are all standing on the edge of a deep precipice and not knowing how far we are going to fall when it happens."

"Not only I am 'freaking out', to use the correspondents expression, and not mine, not only is that worry or anxiety because of the impact of a possible pandemic, but there is also that worry and anxiety because so many people when I talk to them about getting prepared seem to imply that we have months ahead to get prepared

I say to them it might not be months, it could be that we get human to human transmission tomorrow, so please act as though it is going to start tomorrow, don't keep putting off the difficult issues".

As some wag on one of the forums stated. It sounds like he's got something he want's to get off his chest.

Ya think?