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By Issa Yussuf, Zanzibar
Former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S Embassy in Dar es Salaam, John Lange has challenged the Tanzanian government and those in the neighbourhood to exercise transparency and share samples whenever influenza such as avian flu, rift valley fever and the like surface.
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This, he says, will facilitate effective control .
Ambassador Lange, currently, a Special Representative on avian and pandemic influenza threw the challenge in a special interview with the Sunday Observer shortly after he had met a group of international visitors who were in the US for an infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS leadership programme. The Programme was organised by the Department of States.
``There have been no outbreaks of avian influenza so far in Tanzania or Kenya, but we believe the governments of both countries are fully aware of the need for transparency and sample sharing in the event of an outbreak,`` said Ambassador Lange.
The diplomat is a recipient of the Distinguished Honour Award of the Department of State for ``skilled leadership`` and ``extraordinary courage" in the aftermath of the terrorist bombing of the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam on August 7, 1998.
According to Ambassador Lange, both countries (Tanzania and Kenya) sent delegations to the December 2006 Bamako conference on avian and pandemic influenza.
At the conference, participants committed to transparency in reporting of influenza cases in humans and in animals and to immediate sharing of epidemiological data and samples with appropriate international organizations and networks.
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This would facilitate detection and characterize the nature and evolution of any outbreaks as quickly as possible to achieve early containment.
He said transparency was critical and was one of the core principles in the battle against avian and pandemic influenza or any other animal flu.
``Fully accurate, reliable and timely information about both human and animal outbreaks, including the number and location of cases, is vital to global efforts to contain avian influenza and to meet the challenge of a potential human pandemic,`` he said.
According to him, nations that have failed to promptly disclose and contain outbreaks of avian influenza in poultry have often seen an expansion of avian influenza to the point where it has become endemic.
Regarding concern that the avian influenza H5N1 virus could mutate and result in sustained and efficient human-to-human transmission, immediate sharing of data is important if the international community is to have any opportunity to contain the outbreak and prevent a global human pandemic, he told the Sunday Observer in Washington DC.
The US Government in 2006 provided bilateral assistance of $6.1 million (6.4bn/=) to Kenya and $1.3 million (1.35bn/=) to Tanzania for avian influenza response and pandemic influenza preparedness.
As to whether his office was also dealing with Rift Valley Fever (RVF), another flu, currently threatening both Tanzania and Kenya, Ambassador Lange responded:
``My office does not deal with RVF, and I suggest that you contact the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam for additional information on that issue.``
Meanwhile, reports reaching the Sunday Observer yesterday had it that 16 manufacturers from 10 countries were developing prototype pandemic influenza vaccines against H5N1 avian influenza virus.
Five of them were also involved in the development of vaccines against other avian viruses (H9N2, H5N2, and H5N3).
At present, more than 40 clinical trials have been completed or are ongoing. Most of them have focused on healthy adults.
Some companies, after completing safety analyses in adults, have initiated clinical trials in the elderly and in children.
All vaccines were safe and well tolerated in all age groups tested; a statement from Geneva`s WHO headquarters made available to this paper yesterday confirmed.
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Ambassador Lange certainly understands what's necessary. :applause:
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