We don't have any information to suggest that this virus is more pathogenic or dangerous than other viruses.
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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
We don't have any information about cases actually in the capital.
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.
Maria Cheng
There are no other suspect cases. There aren't any other people under observation.
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.
Maria Cheng
For us to assign public health significance to a genetic change we need to match it to what is happening epidemiologically how the virus is behaving and clinically if it's more or less virulent.
Maria Cheng
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