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STORY: WHO / H7N9
TRT: 1.31
SOURCE: CH UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 APRIL 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
FILE – RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, Palais des Nations
19 APRIL 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Glenn Thomas, Spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO):
“To date there are a total of 87 laboratory confirmed human cases, including 17 fatalities in China reported from four provinces.”
4. Close up, journalist
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Glenn Thomas, Spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO):
“This week, WHO and the China National Health and Family Planning Commission are leading a joint mission of experts, at the invitation of the Government of China. The experts will visit areas affected by H7N9 in Shanghai and Beijing in order to study the situation and provide recommendations on prevention and control of the disease.”
6. Wide shot, table of journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Glenn Thomas, Spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO):
“Just because there is a cluster, does not mean there is human to human transmission so at the moment we are still in the early investigative stages of finding out some of the details and circumstances around how those people were infected.”
8. Med shot, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Glenn Thomas, Spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO):
“We know of apparently three possible cluster cases and those are the case in Shanghai that I mentioned just now. There is also a case in Jan zoo. And also a husband a wife case in Shanghai. And those will be investigated as part of the mission’s terms of references to try and clarify how those people were infected.”
10. Various shots, journalists
China recorded its 88th H7N9 infection yesterday. Seventeen of the cases have been fatal and several patients are in critical condition, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
WHO has still not confirmed whether person-to-person transmission of the H7N9 flu has taken place.
Briefing journalists in Geneva WHO spokesperson Glen Thomas said: “Just because there is a cluster, does not mean there is human to human transmission so at the moment we are still in the early investigative stages of finding out some of the details and circumstances around how those people were infected.”
Influenza specialists from around the world are heading to China to help authorities identify how people are catching the new H7N9 bird flu strain after the number of reported cases there doubled in the past week.
Health authorities in China say they do not know exactly how the virus is spreading, but it is believed to be crossing from birds to humans, prompting mass culls in several cities.
