How worried should we be about avian flu?
The Briefing Room
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The Risk of a New Pandemic Virus Taking Off
With an H5 derived pandemic virus, we would have to assume that there's a potential for very widespread infection and also disease. But it is speculative at this time. Also because the data that is there from the rare human cases, you can also wonder how good the testing and the surveillance around those has been. So there's a lot of uncertainty there and I think we should have to be careful about speculation.
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