15 Quotes by Fadela Chaib

They (the dead) were certainly all in contact with the same source of infection, but they (the WHO team) will also try to see whether we are looking at the first cases of human-to-human transmission.

Above all it is an animal disease and if one wants to avoid there being any human cases, the virus must really be stamped out in the bird population.

... because there's a lot of movement of people between the islands in the region, there is a risk of it spreading.

health workers are overwhelmed by injured and routine work is disrupted.

The first working hypothesis is that the children touched, played with sick chickens and were infected that way. But they are also going to try to see if we are faced with a first case of human-to-human transmission, which would be the start of a flu epidemic.

The meeting will continue development of an operational guide for WHO and international public health authorities to use in an attempt to extinguish a pandemic in its initial stages.