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We have to get the time between the identification of the individual disease outbreaks and the slaughter of infected animals down as far as we can get it and to try and get it within twenty four hours.

Nick Brown

As of Wednesday, we haven't seen further outbreaks or human infections.

Aphaluck Bhatiasevi

Surveillance is crucial because, in my view, the outbreaks affecting transmission among chickens were there for some time without being noticed.

Dr Shigeru Omi

We cannot let down our guard, we cannot underestimate the risks of the outbreaks.

Hui Liangyu

It is still patchy - the pattern of outbreaks - to really make a very definitive link between migratory birds and the disease.

Marco Barbieri

We already have a plan in place for disease outbreaks, but this one must be much more specific.

Robert Higgins

Prevention and control of bird outbreaks is of chief importance. If we fail to do that well, then sooner or later there will be transmission from birds to human.

Jia Youling

China has learned from the SARS experience and has been more open and more willing to respond to disease outbreaks.

Aphaluck Bhatiasevi

China is prone to bird flu outbreaks in autumn and winter. The situation is very grave.

Hui Liangyu

So far the impact of bird flu outbreaks has been isolated to the poultry sector and some farm households and has not spilled into the overall economy.

Milan Brahmbhatt

We can make better use of very limited resources to prevent outbreaks of these epidemics.

Tim Palmer

One of the issues that the Legislature needs to look at — now that we've had serious outbreaks of fires — is whether or not in hindsight we should have funded that.

Steve Ogden

The success of immunization in Indonesia is crucial to prevent the outbreak's spread to other countries in Southeast Asia.

Thomas Moran

In general we are fairly concerned because we feel the more outbreaks, the more the risk of a pandemic.

Dr. Noureddin Mona

The key is to treat outbreaks early. If you wait two or three generations you could be looking at 50 to 100 times more locusts.

David Hunter

There's been a half dozen Ebola outbreaks in the world -- ever recorded -- so everything you do is groundbreaking.

Scott Dowell

What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

Ali Khan

Hong Kong, with its dense population and fluid border with China, had one of the hardest outbreaks to control.

C. David Heymann

The species list gets pretty long but by and large there are very few large outbreaks in terms of thousands and thousands of birds.

Mark Drew

This is one of the largest outbreaks, that we are aware of, in decades anywhere in the world.

Christopher Braden

We are supporting initiatives to strengthen active surveillance to make sure that new outbreaks are identified promptly across the country.

Assadullah Azhari

At present the three outbreaks were stamped out and no new cases found.

Jia Youling

The frequency of outbreaks is a reflection of the lack of a surveillance system.

Dr. Noureddin Mona

We expect there will be more poultry outbreaks.

Henk Bekedam

There aren't locust outbreaks every year, so it is next to impossible for a producer of Metarhizium to sustain itself with one country as the market for their product.

David Hunter

There are literally hundreds of viruses that can cause these types of outbreaks. It is still likely that we will not identify exactly which virus caused this outbreak.

Allison Mcgeer

We do not generally see massive outbreaks after these events.

Ali Khan

It was one of the best around. He wasn't involved but, because of the E. coli outbreaks, he can't get insurance.

David Viers

In wintertime, we really are concerned because the risk is higher. The more the environment is ideal for the virus the more outbreaks we are expecting.

Dr. Noureddin Mona

I think we should form a European influenza task force that brings together all our knowledge, so that if you have outbreaks in the future you could form delegations to work together with local experts in the area where it occurs.

Albert Osterhaus

With the number of countries now that have significant outbreaks of some sort, obviously there is more contact with human beings and that increases the possibility of ... a global human pandemic.

Kent Hill

Application of the new system may be especially advantageous in situations of outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

We need to realize that there is very little incentive for farmers to report suspected outbreaks.

Dr Shigeru Omi