35 Quotes by Roy Wadia

They have taken the situation very seriously indeed -- including the high profile visit by the prime minister, observation of thousands of people, enforcing bird culls and vaccinating poultry.

As more outbreaks occur among poultry and animals around the world, and as more human cases occur, the virus has more chances to transmit more effectively from animals to humans, or possibly among humans as well.

It means that there is a question mark that hangs over the progress of the virus in China. It's perhaps more significant to get animal viruses, because this virus is still something that is primarily in the animal sector.

It is very possible that people will catch the bird flu virus.

Doing tests of different sorts is something we would recommend ... in any outbreak situation, especially in one of this scale,

It's still early days in terms of human cases being found in China. There isn't that much experience perhaps in dealing with possible human cases, and further support might be needed more now than perhaps later.

It's certainly a situation where the viruses need to be shared and not only shared but shared in a timely and consistent manner.

It just shows you that anything can happen at any time. It's a very unpredictable situation, whether on the human side or the animal side.

They'll probably seek to meet the patients or their families.