organization:world health assembly

H7N9, déjà un impact de 6,5 Mds de dollars, essentiellement sur la volaille chinoise.
(et, accessoirement, 36 morts à ce jour)

#H7N9 bird flu outbreak costs more than $6.5 billion so far -U.N | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/21/us-birdflu-idUSBRE94K0ZQ20130521

“The economic impacts of H7N9 have been astounding,” Juan Lubroth said during a presentation at the World Health Assembly in Geneva.

“Over $6.5 billion has been lost in the agriculture sector because of prices, consumer confidence and trade. So poultry industry losses in China have been high,” he said.

H7N9 Confirmed in Chicken — CRI English (avec Xinhua) ▻http://english.cri.cn/6909/2013/05/21/2702s766066.htm
(21/05/13)

A poultry sample has tested positive for the H7N9 virus in Zengcheng City in the southern province of Guangdong, the country’s agriculture ministry said yesterday.

The avian flu virus, which has so far led to the deaths of 36 people nationwide, was detected in a sample of chicken from a market in Zengcheng.

The ministry ordered Guangdong to properly dispose of the sample and increase monitoring efforts.

#Pharma backs latest attempt at a global health #R&D_treaty : Spoonful of Medicine
►http://blogs.nature.com/spoonful/2012/05/pharma-backs-latest-attempt-at-a-global-health-rd-treaty-2.html

“Now that it’s about funding, governments have to start talking to each other.”

Importantly, big pharma appears to be on-board—which may pave the way for successful passage of the treaty at next week’s World Health Assembly. “We’re hearing from industry a need to reform the current system,” says CEWG chair John-Arne Røttingen, a health economist at the University of Oslo’s Institute for Health and Society who coauthored the report. Similar proposals were put forward by coalitions of member states and non-governmental organizations in 2005 and 2009, but both efforts failed to even make it to a vote after drug companies lobbied hard against proposed patent reforms that would have opened the door to more generics for a wide variety of medicines. In contrast, the current draft treaty only calls for less patent protection of treatments for diseases commonly found in the developing world, such as #malaria, #Chagas disease and #dengue fever.

#santé #recherche