41 Quotes by Maria Cheng

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,

When this outbreak (in Turkey) was first reported, there was a lot of concern it was behaving differently.

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.

Since we've been talking about this containment strategy, we've given the very big qualifier that we think it may fail.

But we don't know what this means for humans. We don't know if they would play a role in transmitting the disease. We don't know how much virus the cats would excrete, how much people would need to be exposed to before they would fall ill.

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.

But at the moment we don't know enough about the situation to tell whether or not the virus has changed in some way. And that's largely the reason the team has gone in.

If we are able to identify cases rapidly enough so that we could put in these measures, they might effectively contain the spread of a pandemic,

He is apparently in critical condition in hospital.