Zhong Nanshan Quotations

Now that the public is aware of the risk of eating wild animals, they intend not to eat. This is a big change.

It has a very high mortality, but it is individual cases, not a pandemic. There's no evidence in China at the moment of transmission between humans.

We have to educate the public, that once you have fever and have had contact with poultry, you have to go to the hospital and have a check-up.

Bird flu has not been effectively contained. The threat of it mutating so people can transmit it is still there, and the threat is very large.

At this point, people will be very alert in all the hospitals and we have been training the doctors in all the hospitals talking about this. Now, people are very alert if these kind of symptoms are being reported.

The threat of bird flu is now getting closer to the human species. The possibility for the virus to pass from infected animals, which haven't shown symptoms, to human beings has increased.

Some people there (in the countryside) are not alert for bird flu.

Some people there are not alert for bird flu. They don't report serious pneumonia cases to relevant departments when they hear of them.

People don't just contract the virus through contact with dead poultry. They can also get the virus from contact with live poultry and migratory birds.

It's possible that live poultry may also carry bird flu virus.

An urgent task at present is to carry out nationwide publicity as quickly as possible.

I have to say that we have controlled the key point of the infection, which is in the wild animal market.

High fever and pneumonia should be very aware of and patients with such symptoms should be admitted to hospital immediately and once diagnosed as bird flu, they should be free of charge.

The hospital should treat those patients without pre-payment.