Guenael Rodier Quotations

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it (the girl's) is a human case of H5N1.

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it is a human case of H5N1.

We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.

I have a sense that what is going on in Turkey can be brought under control relatively easily.

Giving it this chance could help create conditions for the emergence of a new virus.

The picture is quite clear. We have a situation similar to what we've seen in Asia so far. There are a number of small-size family clusters of disease, including many children that had contact with infected birds, in particular backyard poultry, particularly backyard chickens.

We do expect to see some (more human) cases because it takes time before the virus in birds has completely disappeared ... but we believe it is going down daily.

With 31 sites of avian influenza, Romania runs the risk of human contamination at any moment.

We don't need to confirm each and every case to confirm the outbreak.

At the moment there is no element in this village indicating human-to-human transmission. It's typically similar to what we have seen so far (in Asia).

The more humans infected with the avian virus, the more chance it has to adapt. We may be playing with fire.

Compared to the numbers in Asia, we do not have too many deaths at the moment.

Any countries in the regions which have situations in the rural areas similar to what we have here in Turkey could obviously have some diseases in animals and potentially in humans and that requires to strengthen surveillance systems both for humans and animals and to take all the measures necessary to control diseases in animals.

As long as we're dealing only with migratory birds being found here and there, I don't think it's a big deal, frankly. The big issue is if we start to have domestic poultry infected. Then it would start to be a problem ... a higher risk for transmission to humans.

It seems like it has spread much more widely in animals and in more districts that was initially thought.

It is worrisome because it shows that the problem is expanding ... the frontline of the disease is getting bigger and this is not good news.

It's unlikely we're dealing with false positives. There's no reason to believe it's wrong.

It's clear that the virus is well-established in the region.

Clearly there was a poor understanding as to how much spread of h5n1 there was in poultry in Turkey.

All of the cases confirmed by the laboratory are people who had close contact with infected, sick or dead poultry. The major point now is to control the outbreak in poultry as it is the source of infection in humans.

The likelihood that some kids in Romania come in contact and play with sick or dead birds is not zero.