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Viewing cable 06ABUJA2777, NIGERIA OCTOBER 18 AVIAN FLU UPDATE

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06ABUJA2777 2006-10-19 09:16 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Abuja
VZCZCXRO3885
PP RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHHM RUEHJO RUEHLN RUEHMA RUEHMR RUEHPA
RUEHPB RUEHRN
DE RUEHUJA #2777/01 2920916
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 190916Z OCT 06 ZDK
FM AMEMBASSY ABUJA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7554
INFO RUEHZO/AFRICAN UNION COLLECTIVE
RUEHZN/ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLECTIVE
RUEAUSA/DEPT OF HHS WASHDC
RHFMISS/CDR USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
RUEHRN/USMISSION UN ROME 0030
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 002777 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
USDA FAS WASHDC FOR FAA/RANDY HAGER 
USDA FOR APHIS/JOHN SHAW 
USDA FOR WAYNE MOLSTAD/OSEC 
USAID/W FOR AFR/WA ANGELA LOZANO 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KFLU TBIO AMED EAGR EAID NI AVIANFLU
SUBJECT: NIGERIA OCTOBER 18 AVIAN FLU UPDATE 
 
REF:  ABUJA 2539 
 
ABUJA 00002777  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
1. (SBU) Summary.  The Government of Nigeria's (GON) response to an 
avian influenza (AI) outbreak remains sluggish.  A World Health 
Organization (WHO) official said Nigeria's AI animal-surveillance 
program already had fallen one month behind an optimistic schedule. 
He said the GON's sense of urgency on AI was "really going down" and 
that the GON's ability to absorb assistance was overtaxed.  A UK 
official observed that large poultry farmers have convinced the GON 
to pursue less vigorous and less stringent programs to protect 
against an avian flu outbreak.  Moreover, he said it is unclear what 
socioeconomic damage has already taken place because of Nigeria's 
failure to document cases, and that international donors would not 
succeed in pushing the GON to do more against the virus until 
government officials provided more information.  A UN Food and 
Agriculture Organization (FAO) official said that since late August, 
the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) had decontaminated 26 poultry 
farms in Lagos State.  End Summary. 
 
GON's Response to AI Slows 
-------------------------- 
 
2. (SBU) The GON's response to AI remains sluggish.  Economic 
officer attended the October 4 United Nations/foreign donors AI 
meeting in Abuja, and met with representatives from the WHO, UK and 
FAO.  Mohammed Belhocine, WHO Representative in Nigeria, commented 
that the country's national AI animal-surveillance program launched 
on September 21 already had fallen one month behind an optimistic 
schedule.  He cited the Muslim Ramadan holiday and other reasons for 
the delay.  Belhocine said the GON's sense of urgency was "really 
going down" even though the issue was becoming "more complex and 
threatening."  He also noted that the GON's ability to absorb 
assistance was overtaxed.  Belhocine, who previously had advocated 
higher-level intervention on the issue by foreign donors and by the 
GON itself, cautioned that donors must not push the GON too hard 
"because it must be on board" any AI strategy if that response were 
to succeed. 
 
3. (SBU) Peter Hawkins, UK Department for International Development 
(DFID) Officer, observed that large poultry farmers have succeeded 
in causing the GON to pursue less vigorous and less alarming 
programs against the avian flu.  In addition, he said because the 
socioeconomic damage that AI already had done in Nigeria remained 
undocumented, international donors would not succeed in pushing the 
GON to do more against the virus until this information became 
known.  Hawkins suggested that AI-related donations for the UN 
organization were necessary to increase the UN's operational role at 
the federal and state levels in Nigeria. 
 
4. (U) WHO official Lola Sadiq said the less-pathogenic H3N1 human 
influenza virus had possibly been identified in a person in Kano 
city, by using a less-conclusive type of antibody test. 
International health officials are concerned that the presence of 
both the H3N1 and H5N1 viruses in Nigeria could potentially lead to 
a recombination of the two, resulting in a highly dangerous human 
flu strain. 
 
5. (U) Tim Obi, FAO Nigeria AI Task Force Chief, told the meeting 
that since late August, the MOA had decontaminated 26 poultry farms 
in Lagos State.  He said the MOA had used World Bank funds to 
commission private veterinarians in Lagos State to carry out disease 
surveillance. 
 
New Policy on Compensation to Poultry Owners Pending 
--------------------------------------------- ------- 
 
6. (U) Donor agencies are reviewing the GON's proposed integrated 
national response plan covering the Ministries of Agriculture and 
Health.  The plan appears to contain inconsistencies concerning the 
GON's proposed amount of compensation to be paid to poultry farmers. 
 World Bank official Simon Ehui said Nigeria planned to pay 
different levels of compensation for different types of birds, 
rather than the government's former figure of 250 naira (nearly 
$2.00) per bird. 
 
7. (SBU) On October 4 the GON held an AI Technical Committee 
 
ABUJA 00002777  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
(working level) meeting at which little new information was 
presented and at which the MOA was poorly represented.  The GON 
scheduled a meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee for 
October 5, but this later was canceled. 
 
Comment 
------- 
 
8. (SBU) Although the FAO's schedule for its national AI 
animal-surveillance program admittedly was optimistic, it is 
disappointing that this program already is one month behind 
schedule.  Nigeria's commercial poultry sector, which is 
well-connected politically, so far appears to have weathered the 
worst effects of an AI outbreak, despite the GON's failure to take 
strong preventive measures against the virus.  Moreover, the fact 
that the dire predictions regarding an AI outbreak have not 
occurred, has led to decrease GON vigilance. 
 
FUREY