Maria Cheng Spread Quotations

But this is a very short window of opportunity here. Because influenza spreads so rapidly we wouldn't be surprised to see this spread worldwide within a matter of weeks.Ê.Ê.Ê. Once we start to see this in a larger area, across borders, then it will be very difficult to stop it.

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,

It would not be surprising if it had spread from Turkey, but at the same time, we have no evidence yet that it has.