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It was not unexpected. There will be sporadic human cases as long as the virus is circulating in animals.

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The outbreak is in northern Iraq. There are lots of challenges there, largely associated with terrain and weather. It's cold and wet, and there are steep sided valleys that the team is moving through.

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Surveillance and response of H5N1 in both animals and humans needs to be strengthened in all regions bordering countries where outbreaks have been identified.

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The crisis ... may seem more intense now because birds in Europe have become infected.

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I think it's significant because it draws our attention to the fact that this is a very, very difficult disease to get for humans.

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When the virus shows up in a new country, it doesn't mean that the pandemic has started, it means that the animal disease has spread.

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The genetically modified food industry recognizes that they need to have consumer confidence in order to push ahead. The failure of GM foods in Europe was directly linked to the consumers' lack of faith in their government food regulators.

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There are a lot of scary stories out there about the next pandemic, but we have to make difficult decisions without a lot of information. The real answer is we don't know until the next pandemic virus appears.

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Tens of millions of birds have been affected. But there have been only about 117 human cases in two years. This is a very difficult disease to move from animals to humans.

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We need to identify the source of this child's exposure. It has to be in the environment somewhere and we need to identify that before going ahead in assessing control or (bird) elimination efforts.

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What would emerge would be a disease as deadly as avian influenza, which currently has a case fatality rate of over 50, but that moves as easily as seasonal influenza does from person to person.

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Bird flu is a disease among animals it's very difficult for this virus to move from poultry into humans. Our concern is that it will change in a way that will allow it to easily move between humans, and that will trigger a pandemic.

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What this virus can't do now is move easily from person to person. We worry that it could develop this characteristic of human-to-human transmission.

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It is always worrying to have a new case in a new country because it raises concerns among the public. But we have to understand that so far this is just one case.

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There have been something like 180 million birds that have died either directly from the disease or been culled because they were exposed to it. Yet it's taken us all this time -- more than two years, almost three years now -- to cross this barrier.

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The outbreaks in those areas are being contained, ... There's still disease, but the disease is largely contained in hospitals.

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There seems to be a heightened sense of concern about an extraordinarily rare disease. It is very, very, very difficult for humans to acquire, even with direct exposure.

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From our point of view, Iraqi authorities have done a very good job in responding to the outbreak and have been very transparent about what is known about the human disease.

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That was an extreme of an already rare event. Pandemics normally have more modest death rates.

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I hope we are not creating a sense of panic... because we need the public's trust to encourage governments to begin or continue pandemic preparedness efforts.

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During SARS, we worked like hell to contain a global outbreak. Now we're trying to feel our way through this next generation of problems.

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We can confirm that the 15-year-old girl was infected with the H5N1 avian flu virus as a result of the London testing.

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We keep encouraging countries to develop a plan because a pandemic is inevitable.

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We cannot let our guard down until this disease is put back in a box.

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There is definitely concern about Egypt. In a relatively short period of time we have what is really a large number of cases.

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