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Viewing cable 06ABUJA524, ECOWAS SAYS PREPARING TO MEET AVIAN-FLU CHALLENGE

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06ABUJA524 2006-03-03 15:41 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Abuja
VZCZCXRO7184
OO RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHPA
DE RUEHUJA #0524/01 0621541
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 031541Z MAR 06
FM AMEMBASSY ABUJA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4795
INFO RUEHZO/AFRICAN UNION COLLECTIVE
RUEAUSA/DEPT OF HHS WASHDC
RHFMISS/CDR USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
RUEHRO/USMISSION UN ROME 0052
RUFOADA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RUEKDIA/DIA WASHDC
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC//USDP/ASD-HD//
RUEHPH/CDC ATLANTA GA
RUEHRC/DEPT OF AGRICULTURE WASHDC
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ABUJA 000524 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
FOR OES NANCY POWELL 
USDA FOR FAS/OA, FAS/DLP, FAS/ICD AND FAS/ITP 
USDA ALSO FOR APHIS 
USAID REGIONAL HUB OFFICE ACCRA 
CHERYL FRENCH APHIS DAKAR 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
SUBJECT: ECOWAS SAYS PREPARING TO MEET AVIAN-FLU CHALLENGE 
 
REF:  ABUJA 517 
 
1. Summary.  Ambassador met March 2 with ECOWAS Executive 
Secretary Mohamed Ibn Chambas, who noted with concern AI's 
 
SIPDIS 
advance in Nigeria.  Chambas said ECOWAS countries needed to 
have national strategies, after which regional ones could be 
created.  He said Nigeria's "lessons learned" would be 
invaluable for the ECOWAS ministerial conference scheduled 
for March 25-28 in Abuja.  ECOWAS additionally would host a 
technical meeting in Bamako on March 16 and 17.  ECOWAS has 
asked the African Development Bank to examine the regional 
implications of AI and to allocate money to a regional fund 
to support bird-culling operations.  End summary. 
 
2. The Ambassador, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 
chief of party, economic officer, and political-military 
officer met March 2 in Abuja with Mohamed Ibn Chambas, 
executive secretary of the Economic Community of West 
African States (ECOWAS).  The CDC chief of party showed 
Chambas a series of maps, based on information provided by 
the Government of Nigeria (GON), illustrating avian 
influenza's (AI) rapid spread in Nigeria.  Chambas noted 
with concern this graphic representation of the virus's 
advance.   In response to Chambas's question, the CDC 
official replied that a vaccine could be used on birds at 
large commercial farms but that the GON was still 
determining its policy on using inoculations. 
 
3. The Ambassador said AI has spread in Nigeria from the 
northeast to the southwest, after apparently being brought 
by wild birds.  The CDC official noted Nigeria's control of 
AI "has not been highly successful" so far.  The Ambassador 
cautioned that the lack of success elsewhere in controlling 
AI means countries and organizations must be prepared to 
address AI over the long term. 
 
4. Chambas and the CDC official discussed the safe handling 
and preparation of poultry.  Chambas noted he earlier had 
been misinformed about correct procedures, reflecting a 
larger and more general misunderstanding of the safe 
handling and preparation of potentially infected poultry. 
The CDC official warned of the economic impact as well as 
the health impact of AI.  Chambas noted the region's major 
deficiency in protein and how AI would only worsen the 
already insufficient diet of the region's citizens. 
 
5. Chambas said he met earlier in the day with Nigeria's 
agriculture minister.  He said ECOWAS countries needed to 
have national strategies, after which regional ones can be 
created.  He observed that the organization must learn from 
its member states' experiences, and that Nigeria's "lessons 
learned" would be invaluable for the ECOWAS ministerial 
conference scheduled for March 25-28 in Abuja.  Chambas said 
ECOWAS additionally would host a technical meeting in 
Bamako, Mali, on March 16 and 17, to build on the results of 
two days of ECOWAS talks in Dakar in late February.  Chambas 
also said ECOWAS has asked the African Development Bank to 
examine the regional implications of AI and to allocate 
money to a regional fund to support major bird-culling 
operations and to provide compensation to affected families. 
 
6. Economic officer and agricultural attache met earlier on 
March 2 with Dr. Aubin Sawadogo, ECOWAS livestock program 
officer.  He said ECOWAS was working to prepare a sub- 
regional emergency action plan, and that each member state 
already had a national action plan.  (Comment:  The 
assertion that each ECOWAS member state has a national 
action plan is over-optimistic, based on Embassy Abuja's 
familiarity with the GON's current difficulty in formulating 
a workable response to AI.  End comment.)   Sawadogo 
acknowledged that ECOWAS "had a lot of problems" in 
contending with AI, especially a lack of funding and a 
shortage of technical expertise.  He explained that ECOWAS 
deferred to its members states on whether they should adopt 
bird inoculations. 
 
7. Sawadogo praised the GON's cooperation with ECOWAS on AI. 
He said ECOWAS would give Nigeria USD 1 million to combat 
 
ABUJA 00000524  002 OF 002 
 
 
AI.  Sawadogo acknowledged, however, that the AI outlook for 
Africa as a whole was "very bad." 
 
Comment 
------- 
 
8. Embassy Abuja is encouraged that ECOWAS officials, 
including Executive Secretary Chambas, clearly had knowledge 
and understanding of the situation concerning avian 
influenza and the need to address this threat.  West Africa 
will benefit from ECOWAS's using the experiences of member 
states already afflicted by AI to strengthen the region's 
response. 
CAMPBELL