Maria Cheng
Maria Cheng
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.
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.
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,
beijing cases exposure history human identified informed office province seems somebody
Our office in Beijing was informed of this today. It is in a province that hasn't identified human cases before but it is somebody who seems to have a history of exposure to poultry.
apparently both exposed sick
We need more clarification because both apparently had been exposed to sick chickens.
birds certainly cluster easily humans numbers pieces seen sure terms together virus
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.
according eastern office
According to our Eastern Mediterranean office, ... it was not avian influenza.
according case dismissed eastern office
According to our Eastern Mediterranean office, it's been dismissed as a case ... they got back to us that it was not avian influenza.
attempt good strengthen worldwide
Any attempt to strengthen the surveillance worldwide for H5N1 is a good plan.
far looks
So far it looks like the same pattern.
fatal laboratory samples
The laboratory in the U.K. said that they have detected H5N1 in samples from the two fatal cases.
somewhere
It could be Asia. It could be somewhere else.
adapt bird definitely exploring flu networks prevention
I think that's something we'll definitely be exploring how can we adapt these networks to be used for bird flu prevention campaigns?