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.
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We don't have enough information to make any kind of hypothesis.Maria Cheng
He is apparently in critical condition in hospital.
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
It is possible that they all had common exposure to sick poultry but it is also possible there may have been human to human transmission. We don't have enough information to draw a hypothesis either way.
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She had similar symptoms and the clinical course of her illness was the same. So it would be very probable that she died of H5N1, but right now we don't have the laboratory test to prove that.
Maria Cheng
It's always a concern when we have H5N1 cases, particularly in a region that hasn't previously reported human cases. That shows us that the virus is still a threat to public health and clearly that it has a capacity to move and to infect humans.
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