Guenael Rodier Quotes (10 Quotes)

It's unlikely we're dealing with false positives. There's no reason to believe it's wrong.

The more humans infected with the avian virus, the more chance it has to adapt. We may be playing with fire.

The picture is quite clear. We have a situation similar to what we've seen in Asia so far. There are a number of small-size family clusters of disease, including many children that had contact with infected birds, in particular backyard poultry, particularly backyard chickens.

I have a sense that what is going on in Turkey can be brought under control relatively easily.

It seems like it has spread much more widely in animals and in more districts that was initially thought.

Any countries in the regions which have situations in the rural areas similar to what we have here in Turkey could obviously have some diseases in animals and potentially in humans and that requires to strengthen surveillance systems both for humans and animals and to take all the measures necessary to control diseases in animals.

We do expect to see some (more human) cases because it takes time before the virus in birds has completely disappeared ... but we believe it is going down daily.

All of the cases confirmed by the laboratory are people who had close contact with infected, sick or dead poultry. The major point now is to control the outbreak in poultry as it is the source of infection in humans.

It's clear that the virus is well-established in the region.

It is worrisome because it shows that the problem is expanding ... the frontline of the disease is getting bigger and this is not good news.