Any attempt to strengthen the surveillance worldwide for H5N1 is a good plan.
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I think really, (illness in) people like health-care workers and first responders would be our first indication that something is changing in the virus to make it more transmissible.Maria Cheng
We know cats can be infected. We know H5N1 is capable of infecting a wide diversity of mammals. We are not exactly sure what it means for human health, but I don't think it raises WHO concerns.
Maria Cheng
I'm not sure we've seen a cluster like this in terms of numbers and certainly it's a concern. Is the virus being transmitted more easily from birds to humans, or even from humans to humans We need to put all the pieces together before we can come to conclusions.
Maria Cheng
It was ruled out before because all the indications at the time were that it was not bird flu ... Tests done in a laboratory in Baghdad had come back negative.
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But we don't know what this means for humans. We don't know if they would play a role in transmitting the disease. We don't know how much virus the cats would excrete, how much people would need to be exposed to before they would fall ill.
Maria Cheng
Right now these new cases in Turkey, they don't elevate the global risk assessment, so we're still in the same pandemic alert phase that we've been in for the last couple of years. But it's something that needs to be monitored very closely.
Maria Cheng
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