More - Georg Petersen Quotes

In around 80 percent of cases (in Asia) so far there is obvious contact with sick birds. That means that there are few cases where we have no clear exposure history, either because the case came to knowledge late or information is incomplete or we really don't know.

Georg Petersen

 Asia

It doesn't mean mutation,

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It's not what we call extensive human-to-human transmission ... It doesn't mean mutation.

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Definitely the whole international community is very much present,

Georg Petersen

 Community

It's not very much, it's rather puny. They definitely need some more.

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[The virus in the dead woman] seems like a virus that has gone directly from birds, ... reassuring for all of us.

Georg Petersen

 Woman

We need to prepare - every country - for an eventual massive influenza epidemic that puts perhaps up to 30 percent of the workforce in bed,

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 Country

We are concerned that the virus may still circulate after this campaign,

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The problem with this country, as in many Asian countries is that a large portion of the chickens are raised by farmers in their backyard and even within the cities, people are raising chickens and this is very difficult to control.

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 Country

When you look at Vietnam, Thailand or Cambodia and Indonesia, what they have done right is that after the initial sort of confusion and not understanding what was going on and perhaps not notifying everyone, there has been a lot of action taken and a lot of openness,

Georg Petersen