This is not confirmation for us. We need to have samples sent to a certified laboratory. |
This is progress and an important step in pandemic vaccine development. |
Those viruses are in a WHO reference laboratory and are being studied. |
until the pandemic begins. |
We are concerned that the virus infects a human that already has contracted a strain of normal influenza and this influenza will mix with this avian form. As a result, a new strain could be formed that the human immune system has never seen before and that would ignite a pandemic. |
We believe and are very concerned that this virus -- which is now widely circulating in the environment and moving west -- has the potential to ignite a pandemic. |
We believe those particles are inhaled and that's how people become infected. |
We can confirm that the 15-year-old girl was infected with the H5N1 avian flu virus as a result of the London testing. |
We cannot let our guard down until this disease is put back in a box. |
We don't have positive confirmation of H5N1 in the girl yet. The laboratory samples should have reached the UK this morning. |
We have totally discounted the possibility of an avian influenza infection. But we can't take away the possibility of an appearance in Iraq, as many cases have been reported in Turkey. |
We haven't seen human cases out of these investigations so far. |
We keep encouraging countries to develop a plan because a pandemic is inevitable. |
We know from experience with this drug that it is most effective very shortly after symptoms develop. |
We know we're overdue for an influenza pandemic strain and we know it will occur, but we don't know when or even exactly what virus will cause it, |