Hans Troedsson Quotes

Dengue is not outside the tropical zone, it is not a threat for international public health... For Europeans or people from North America, the threat for dengue is if you visit (Asia), while with avian influenza if it mutates it will immediately be a threat for every household in the world.

- Hans Troedsson

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But it's not going to be contained in Vietnam if we get a pandemic of avian influenza. Within a very short time span it will spread all over the world. - Hans Troedsson

While we have made impressive efforts at achieving results to tackle this epidemic ... we seem to be leaving some people behind. If there were some tendency that we leave the children behind in these global efforts, that would not only be unfortunate, it would be unacceptable. - Hans Troedsson

Vietnam is still probably not virus-free because it was so widely spread, but they've been able to suppress the virus load. We don't have any indications of any suspected human cases. In the past, there were some issues about the reporting, but that's not the case now. - Hans Troedsson