During SARS, we worked like hell to contain a global outbreak. Now we're trying to feel our way through this next generation of problems.
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The widespread concern may be bad communication on our part. Millions of animals have been infected and very rarely have humans been infected,Dick Thompson
You have to put this in perspective there have been 180 million birds that have been killed because of this disease and yet we've identified fewer than 200 human cases.
Dick Thompson
From our point of view, Iraqi authorities have done a very good job in responding to the outbreak and have been very transparent about what is known about the human disease.
Dick Thompson
This is a disease that's appearing in the developing world. So what you want is affordable drugs,
Dick Thompson
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,
Dick Thompson
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.
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