15 Quotes by Michael Perdue

It could reduce the mutation level... you are less likely to have widespread mutation than if you had 20 strains hop-scotching across Asia. Surveillance and response of H5N1 in both animals and humans needs to be strengthened in all regions bordering countries where outbreaks have been identified.

It could reduce the mutation level ... you are less likely to have widespread mutation than if you had 20 strains hop-scotching across Asia.

It could reduce the mutation level . . . you are less likely to have widespread mutation than if you had 20 strains hop-scotching across Asia.

We have a team arranged to go tomorrow (Saturday) or Sunday.

We don't have the genetic sequence yet but we hope to soon which should tell us if it is the same virus that we have seen in Turkey and in the region surrounding the Black Sea area, where we have seen a lot of outbreaks in the last six months.

We'd certainly hoped not to see it in Africa.

There's no reporting agency responsible for keeping tabs on cats.

They're all basically the same. Nothing new and unusual. That mutation just showed up in that one patient.

They haven't cleaned up the animal problem yet. We depend upon our country office, which investigates all these, and so far they have not given us any indication there is human-to-human transmission. It's just more of the same animal-human exposure.