Crisis team on bird flu.A UN crisis management centre to co-ordinate international efforts against the spread of bird flu bird flu: see influenza. bird flu or avian influenza viral respiratory disease, mainly of birds including poultry and waterbirds but also transmissible to humans. will be opened within a month, a top official with the US Agriculture Department said today. The centre at the Rome-base Food and Agriculture Organisation will dispatch response teams to countries where bird flu is detected in animals and will channel aid, experts and equipment to areas where they are most needed, said Ron Noun 1. Ron - a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria Bokkos, Daffo West Chadic - a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member DeHaven, administrator of USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The department, together with the US Agency for International Development, has allocated around pounds 2.1 million to help get the centre going. It will take eight months for the centre to be fully operational, employing 40-50 people and with a projected three-year budget of pounds 15 million, DeHaven said. |
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