Now we're dipping into other funds. Hopefully as more money comes in, we'll be able to carry on more activities. |
People confuse it with pandemic influenza, but they're very different diseases, |
Pigs are known to be able to be infected with both avian and human viruses, and they too can serve as mixing vessels, just like humans. |
Should this move from human to human -- and it hasn't yet, I want to stress that -- then it's going to be a real challenge. |
Surveillance and response of H5N1 in both animals and humans needs to be strengthened in all regions bordering countries where outbreaks have been identified. |
Taking it on a trip is certainly not recommended. |
Tens of millions of birds have been affected. But there have been only about 117 human cases in two years, ... This is a very difficult disease to move from animals to humans. |
Tens of millions of birds have been affected. But there have been only about 117 human cases in two years. This is a very difficult disease to move from animals to humans. |
That was an extreme of an already rare event. Pandemics normally have more modest death rates. |
That's because we looked at what happened in the 1918 pandemic. That caused the greatest number of deaths ever recorded from an infectious disease in a single year, by far. More than the black plague, more than any other infectious disease, |
The crisis ... may seem more intense now because birds in Europe have become infected. |
The genetically modified food industry recognizes that they need to have consumer confidence in order to push ahead. The failure of GM foods in Europe was directly linked to the consumers' lack of faith in their government food regulators. |
The outbreak is in northern Iraq. There are lots of challenges there, largely associated with terrain and weather. It's cold and wet, and there are steep sided valleys that the team is moving through. |
The outbreaks in those areas are being contained, ... There's still disease, but the disease is largely contained in hospitals. |
The point was initially to allow us to have access to these samples. It's not like WHO is trying to prevent scientists everywhere from getting this information. |