Maria Cheng
Maria Cheng
clinical course died illness laboratory probable prove similar symptoms test
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.
chances evolve form human seeing spark
The more chances H5N1 has to infect people, the more chances it has to evolve into a form that could spark a pandemic. And the place we're seeing the most human infections right now is Indonesia.
boy cases confirmed include south suspect three
There is one confirmed case, the girl, and three suspect cases under investigation who have died. They include her uncle, the boy in the south and another case.
evidence spread surprising
It would not be surprising if it had spread from Turkey, but at the same time, we have no evidence yet that it has.
far looks
So far it looks like the same pattern.
across difficult larger matter opportunity rapidly short spread start stop surprised window within worldwide
But this is a very short window of opportunity here. Because influenza spreads so rapidly we wouldn't be surprised to see this spread worldwide within a matter of weeks.Ê.Ê.Ê. Once we start to see this in a larger area, across borders, then it will be very difficult to stop it.
infected mammals means
We know that mammals can be infected by H5N1, but we don't know what this means for humans.
cases information
We don't have any information about cases actually in the capital.
dangerous information suggest virus
We don't have any information to suggest that this virus is more pathogenic or dangerous than other viruses.
cases gaps given human humans isolated points seeing serious situation surprised
We shouldn't be seeing human cases first, and this points to serious gaps in surveillance. But given the situation in Turkey, I don't think we'd be surprised to see isolated humans cases in surrounding areas.
apparently both exposed sick
We need more clarification because both apparently had been exposed to sick chickens.
cases determine exposure mode rapidly seen situation source whether
We'd like to see all these cases investigated rapidly so that we can determine what the mode of transmission was, what the source of exposure was, and whether or not there were any characteristics of the situation that are different from what we've seen in Asia.
behaving concern
When this outbreak (in Turkey) was first reported, there was a lot of concern it was behaving differently.
bare breathing clearly eyes images mouth nose people possibly protected quite seen
We've seen images where quite clearly they are not protected properly. We see people with bare hands, their eyes, their nose and their mouth uncovered, where they are possibly breathing in virus,