Shigeru Omi

Shigeru Omi
Shigeru Omiis the current Regional Director of the Western Pacific Regional Office for the World Health Organization. He was born in Tokyo in 1949 and currently lives in Manila...
based calendar cases number past
Based upon past experience, approaching the Lunar calendar New Year, the number of cases will increase. That is our observation.
alert among based diminish epidemic means poultry seriously
Based our experience, the epidemic among poultry may temporarily diminish and then seriously return, which means we should keep alert and well prepared.
exposed people
many people have been exposed or potentially exposed.
china good
China has done a very, very good job.
among bird cannot chickens ducks flu humans mingle prevent spreading sure
We cannot kill all the chickens and ducks to prevent bird flu from spreading among them and to humans; therefore, we have to make sure the chickens, ducks and humans do not mingle together.
cases continues human number remain rise virus
The number of human cases is on the rise ... and the virus continues to remain very changeable.
achieving progress reverse steady threatens toward
TB-HIV co-infection threatens to reverse the steady progress toward achieving this goal.
believe delay measures pandemic possible rapid stop
We still believe it is possible to stop or delay a pandemic by implementing rapid containment measures very quickly.
asia attempts bring control southeast
All attempts to bring it under control in Southeast Asia have failed.
boy chickens friends-or-friendship touched
The boy that I met, he did not know anything about this. For him, chickens are friends, so he touched (them).
infection terms time
This is the first time that we have third-generation infection in terms of laboratory-acquired infection.
addressing clearest committed global indication perhaps tobacco
This is perhaps the clearest indication yet that the world is increasingly committed to addressing the global tobacco epidemic,
bring countries european possible
It is possible that European countries can bring this under control,
similar
I think it is similar to tsunamis and earthquakes...we do not know when,