21 Quotes by Guenael Rodier

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).

The more humans infected with the avian virus, the more chance it has to adapt. We may be playing with fire.

Compared to the numbers in Asia, we do not have too many deaths at the moment.

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.

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.

It seems like it has spread much more widely in animals and in more districts that was initially thought.

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.

It's unlikely we're dealing with false positives. There's no reason to believe it's wrong.

It's clear that the virus is well-established in the region.