EMM News Explorer: Keiji Fukuda

[ said]: I fully agree with the Committee's advice,

kuna 10-AUG-10

[-said]: Pandemic and seasonal vaccine in both hemispheres confer the same protection (against H1N1),

reuters 10-AUG-10

[-noted]: We recommend countries to continue monitoring it,

irishsun 10-AUG-10

[ said]: As I said, pandemics are unpredictable and prone to deliver surprises. No two pandemics are ever alike. This pandemic has turned out to be much more fortunate than what we feared a little over a year ago,

kuna 10-AUG-10

[ said]: Even though we see the ending of the pandemic, the virus is still there,

irishsun 10-AUG-10

[ said]: We know that influenza has a significant impact on morbidity and mortality throughout Africa, but unfortunately, we don’t have a great deal of data that shows this,

globalsecurity 03-JUN-10

[ said]: We know that influenza has a significant impact on morbidity and mortality throughout Africa, but unfortunately, we don't have a great deal of data that shows this,

reliefWeb 01-JUN-10

[ explained]: We have seen 40 to 50 million people die in a year in previous pandemics,

bbc 20-MAY-10

[-said]: Anti-vaccine messaging was very active, made it very difficult for public health services in many countries,

HindustanTimes 13-APR-10

[-said]: The reality is there is a huge amount of uncertainty (in a pandemic). I think we did not convey the uncertainty. That was interpreted by many as a non-transparent process,

reuters 12-APR-10

[-said]: Populations around the world have very high expectations for immediate information,

MailGuardian 12-APR-10

[-told]: We have a great deal of speculation, we have a great deal of criticism,

CBC 12-APR-10

[ said]: The bottom line for the process is to identify lessons learned, to identify what the world needs to do including countries and organizations like WHO to be better prepared and also to respond to future pandemics and to future large-scale global public health events,

globalsecurity 12-APR-10

[-said]: Confusion about phases and level of severity remains a very vexing issue,

MailGuardian 12-APR-10

[recently admitted that:]: we still have a lot of things to learn,

AsiaOne 12-APR-10

[-said]: injected a high level of fear about the next pandemic

MailGuardian 12-APR-10

[ added]: One of them is that we do not know when the pandemic itself is going to be over,

globalsecurity 12-APR-10

[-said]: The reality is there is a huge amount of uncertainty [in a pandemic]. I think we did not convey the uncertainty. That was interpreted by many as a non-transparent process,

MailGuardian 12-APR-10

[ said]: Could we have made decisions better? Could we have considered things in a different way at the time?

CBSnews 01-APR-10

[-said]: It appears to be on the less severe side of the spectrum of pandemics that we have seen in the 20th century

WashingtonPost 30-MAR-10

[ said]: The assessment itself is going to address many of the questions which are being raised now,

CBC 29-MAR-10

[ noted]: Many of the countries in the southern Hemisphere are the countries who are least able to handle large outbreaks of disease and who have the least resources,

voanews 29-MAR-10

[ says]: We wanted to overestimate rather than underestimate the situation,

spiegel 12-MAR-10

[ says]: The first thing I thought was: We have to act quickly,

spiegel 12-MAR-10

[-said]: This pandemic is on the less severe end of severity,

WashingtonPost 24-FEB-10

[ said]: The director-general decided that it was appropriate not to make any changes in the current pandemic phases right now,

smh 24-FEB-10

[-said]: We have some reason to be concerned about what may develop as half of the world goes into its winter months,

thestar 24-FEB-10

[ said]: We hope that the worst is behind us and the overall trend will be going down,

time 23-FEB-10

[-told]: The inclusion of the H1N1 pandemic virus in the influenza vaccine does not signal that the pandemic is over,

timesofmalta 18-FEB-10

[-said]: For many countries, I think the answer is that a trivalent vaccine would make sense,

timesofmalta 18-FEB-10

[-told]: will continue to be a dominant virus and in wide circulation in the coming winter in the north hemisphere,

earthtimes 18-FEB-10

[-told]: If they have the vaccine strain which is already made up and can be used, then they're ahead of the game,

timesofmalta 18-FEB-10

[-said]: The post peak period means that we continue to be in a pandemic,

timesofmalta 18-FEB-10

[ said]: WHO will be asking the emergency committee to convene later this month to review the situation and provide the WHO with guidance on whether we are entering a post peak period,

abs 11-FEB-10

[said:]: The ending of a pandemic cannot be construed an abrupt on-or-off situation,

reuters 11-FEB-10

[ said]: We're now seeing the first evidence of community transmission in Senegal,

abs 11-FEB-10

[-said later]: The post-peak phase is different from phase six, but it indicates that there is ongoing pandemic activity,

HonululuAdvetrtiser 11-FEB-10

[-told]: What we are hoping for is that the worst is behind us,

reuters 11-FEB-10

[-said]: We hope that the worst is over but you can't suddenly let down your guard,

HonululuAdvetrtiser 11-FEB-10

[ said]: The worst on a global level is probably over. We are now in a transition period,

earthtimes 11-FEB-10

[ said]: Deaths from the pandemic have been confirmed one by one through laboratory tests and unquestionably are much lower than the true number,

cnn 06-FEB-10

[ said]: Let me state clearly for the record - the influenza pandemic policies and responses recommended and taken by WHO were not improperly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry,

dailymail 05-FEB-10

[ said]: turns out to be an incredibly difficult logistical action,

IHT 02-FEB-10

[-told]: We are under no illusions that this response was the perfect response,

thestar 26-JAN-10

[-wrote]: There have been over 14,000 deaths that have been laboratory-confirmed, many in young, previously healthy people. Who is going to tell their families that the virus is mild?

time 26-JAN-10

[-told]: Let me state clearly for the record. The influenza pandemic policies and responses recommended and taken by WHO were not improperly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry,

thestar 26-JAN-10

[ says]: I think all countries recognize the desirability of flexibility in implementing pandemic plans. But exercising flexibility is really hard especially when large and complicated events like pandemics are often very confusing, and the expectations of populations can swing dramatically over short periods of time,

time 26-JAN-10

[ said]: is both wrong and is irresponsible

nature 24-JAN-10

[ said]: Right now, pandemic infections are occurring in many countries, but the overall pattern is decreasing,

globalsecurity 19-JAN-10

[-says]: And, the coordination on the reporting has been unusually intense. And, at this point we can say that, again, no unusual safety issues have been reported. So, we have been looking very closely for any emergence of things such as Guillaume Barre's syndrome, unexplained deaths and so on. And, right now, we do not see the emergence of these kinds of patterns.

globalsecurity 19-JAN-10

[-says]: We see that the highest activity is in northern Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and southern Asia. And, we can also say that the second wave of infections peaked very early in some parts of the northern Hemisphere.

globalsecurity 19-JAN-10

[said that:]: the actions taken by countries to deal with this pandemic have been by far

scidev 18-JAN-10

[-also said]: The world is going through a real pandemic. The description of it as a fake is both wrong and irresponsible.

CBC 15-JAN-10

[ said]: From the very beginning, the WHO has gone out of its way to let everybody know that the future course of the pandemic was uncertain, that we did not have a crystal ball and could not tell you at the beginning which way it was going to go. This remains as true today as it was back then,

CBC 15-JAN-10

[-said]: Given this reality, there is no health authority, including WHO, which can afford to sit back before making decisions. Actions have to be taken because we have to provide support to countries and other institutions working to reduce the impact of the situation,

CBC 15-JAN-10

[ said]: The world is going through a real pandemic. The description of it as fake is both wrong and irresponsible,

xinhuanet_en 14-JAN-10

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