They have taken the situation very seriously indeed -- including the high profile visit by the prime minister, observation of thousands of people, enforcing bird culls and vaccinating poultry, |
They have taken the situation very seriously indeed -- including the high profile visit by the prime minister, observation of thousands of people, enforcing bird culls and vaccinating poultry. |
They will go back in time and review all the steps that have been taken, see if anything has been excluded or if any information that has been collected and not recognized as important. |
They'll probably seek to meet the patients or their families. |
They're going to try to talk to the people affected, |
This is a psychologically telling moment for a country that has never had bird flu cases in the past in humans. |
This is a reiteration of how much of a public health threat bird flu really is. Sometimes it takes a human case or a suspected human case to raise the alarm, to remind us that no country, whether China or anywhere else, can afford to be complacent. |
This is a way to drive home to all the people in China how dangerous bird flu is. We are certainly very encouraged that they are raising the alarm. |
To put it mildly, it's a serious problem everywhere, not just in China. |
To put it mildly, it's a serious problem everywhere, not just in China. We haven't confirmed (the two deaths) in the sense that this is information given to us by China. It's not that we went out there and found out ourselves. |
We've seen that happening in other cases as well, so it's not surprising. |