"John Sydney Oxford" is an English virologist, Professor of Queen Mary, University of London. He is a leading expert on Avian influenza/bird flu, HIV/AIDS, influenza, the 1918 flu pandemic/1918 Spanish Influenza strain, and avian flu.

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That is the danger with influenza – compared to any other virus I know – that it can suddenly transform itself, reinvent itself and spread around the world.

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If it gets itself rooted there, it will be even more difficult to get it out than Southeast Asia.

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You can break the chain of transmission into the human population. The best place to break it is either to protect the domestic birds from the migratory birds. Or alternatively, remove humans from the domestic birds and break the chain of transmission and you are halfway there.

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We will probably learn a lot about bird migration by discovering where the H5N1 virus crops up.

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The first pandemic of the 21st century could come from Africa, rather than Southeast Asia.

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What we do not want is either a New Orleans situation or a Tsunami situation -- that is you could predict something was going to happen but you don't do anything about it to prepare.

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