Bob Dietz
Bob Dietz
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It is embedded. But we still see the need to try to control the virus within the animals that keep it alive --- poultry and wild fowl. It's a frontline response, and one that might not work. But we need to mount as many defenses as we can, if for no other reason than to buy time,
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The more widespread it becomes, the greater the possibility that the (bird flu) virus could become altered and become more of a threat to the human population.
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Many countries in the Western Pacific still do not have a (pandemic) plan of their own -- only seven have completed plans that have been approved by their governments,
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A prime task of the WHO experts and their Chinese counterparts will be to conclusively decide if the laboratory was indeed the source of these people's infections.
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We try to stay out of the business of making predictions, but it seems reasonable to assume that the virus will continue to spread to adjacent areas,
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We see this as a serious situation which bears close monitoring. This is a disconcertingly high mortality rate.
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We are looking at not just a bacteria being active in one herd of pigs but over a fairly wide area, with isolated villages. Gathering information in that sort of situation is difficult.