Guenael Rodier
Guenael Rodier
human risk romania runs sites
With 31 sites of avian influenza, Romania runs the risk of human contamination at any moment.
case confirm
We don't need to confirm each and every case to confirm the outbreak.
case confident human
We are pretty confident that unfortunately it (the girl's) is a human case of H5N1.
case confident human
We are pretty confident that unfortunately it is a human case of H5N1.
laboratory likely move
We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.
brought control relatively turkey
I have a sense that what is going on in Turkey can be brought under control relatively easily.
element far moment seen similar village
At the moment there is no element in this village indicating human-to-human transmission. It's typically similar to what we have seen so far (in Asia).
chance humans infected playing
The more humans infected with the avian virus, the more chance it has to adapt. We may be playing with fire.
compared deaths numbers
Compared to the numbers in Asia, we do not have too many deaths at the moment.
birds dealing domestic found higher issue poultry problem risk start
As long as we're dealing only with migratory birds being found here and there, I don't think it's a big deal, frankly. The big issue is if we start to have domestic poultry infected. Then it would start to be a problem ... a higher risk for transmission to humans.
animals areas both control countries diseases humans measures necessary obviously regions requires rural similar situations strengthen systems turkey
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.
clearly poor poultry spread understanding
Clearly there was a poor understanding as to how much spread of h5n1 there was in poultry in Turkey.
believe dealing false reason unlikely
It's unlikely we're dealing with false positives. There's no reason to believe it's wrong.
bigger disease expanding good problem shows
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.