All of the cases confirmed by the laboratory are people who had close contact with infected, sick or dead poultry. The major point now is to control the outbreak in poultry as it is the source of infection in humans.

Any countries in the regions which have situations in the rural areas similar to what we have here in Turkey could obviously have some diseases in animals and potentially in humans and that requires to strengthen surveillance systems both for humans and animals and to take all the measures necessary to control diseases in animals.

At the moment there is no element in this village indicating human-to-human transmission. It's typically similar to what we have seen so far (in Asia).

Giving it this chance could help create conditions for the emergence of a new virus.

We may be playing with fire.

We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.