"Zsuzsanna Jakab" is Director of the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark. She succeeded Marc Danzon on 1 February 2010. A native of Hungary, she has held a number of high-profile national and international public health policy positions in the last three decades.

Before her election as Regional Director, Jakab served as the founding Director of the European Union's European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in Stockholm, Sweden. Between 2005 and 2010, she built ECDC into an internationally respected centre of excellence in the fight against infectious diseases.

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For the time being there is no reason to panic in Europe. The risk for citizens to have this virus is minimal.

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There is a little more risk for those who have directly worked with the infected animals, so our goal must be to further minimize that risk.

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The risk to human health, to public health, at this stage is minimal.

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If they follow these guidelines the risk is basically nonexistent.

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This virus is not yet adapted to humans, it is not capable of human-to-human transmission and until that happens this will not be a pandemic strain.

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Europe is very well prepared but I hope there will not be a pandemic in the coming months.

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Of course we are worried and we have to get used to the fact that avian flu is now spreading within the European Union.

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