Maria Cheng
Maria Cheng
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Our office in Beijing was informed of this today. It is in a province that hasn't identified human cases before but it is somebody who seems to have a history of exposure to poultry.
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We don't have any information about cases actually in the capital.
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There is one confirmed case, the girl, and three suspect cases under investigation who have died. They include her uncle, the boy in the south and another case.
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Right now these new cases in Turkey, they don't elevate the global risk assessment, so we're still in the same pandemic alert phase that we've been in for the last couple of years. But it's something that needs to be monitored very closely.
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These are all cases that have already been announced (by Turkish authorities).
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We shouldn't be seeing human cases first, and this points to serious gaps in surveillance. But given the situation in Turkey, I don't think we'd be surprised to see isolated humans cases in surrounding areas.
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We'd like to see all these cases investigated rapidly so that we can determine what the mode of transmission was, what the source of exposure was, and whether or not there were any characteristics of the situation that are different from what we've seen in Asia.
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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,
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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,
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I think really, (illness in) people like health-care workers and first responders would be our first indication that something is changing in the virus to make it more transmissible.
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I think that's something we'll definitely be exploring how can we adapt these networks to be used for bird flu prevention campaigns?
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testing and monitoring of more than 300 close contacts failed to detect any further cases.
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We need more clarification because both apparently had been exposed to sick chickens.
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It is possible that they all had common exposure to sick poultry but it is also possible there may have been human to human transmission. We don't have enough information to draw a hypothesis either way.