There is definitely concern about Egypt. In a relatively short period of time we have what is really a large number of cases.
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We need to identify the source of this child's exposure. It has to be in the environment somewhere and we need to identify that before going ahead in assessing control or (bird) elimination efforts.Dick Thompson
We don't have positive confirmation of H5N1 in the girl yet. The laboratory samples should have reached the UK this morning.
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,
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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.
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We keep encouraging countries to develop a plan because a pandemic is inevitable.
Dick Thompson
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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