Robert G. Webster, Rosemary Thomas Chair, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.
"I personally believe it will happen and make personal preparations."
Robert G. Webster,St. Jude's Childrens Hsptl.
May 3, 2006 Robert G. Webster
This is the worst flu virus I have ever seen or worked with or read about."
December 2006
Microbe Magazine
American Society for Microbiology
December 2006
http://www.asm.org/microbe/index.asp?bid=47152
H5N1 Influenza Continues to Circulate and Change (Robert G. Webster, Yi Guan, Malik Peiris, and Honglin Chen)
American Society for Microbiology
December 2006
http://www.asm.org/microbe/index.asp?bid=47152
H5N1 Influenza Continues to Circulate and Change (Robert G. Webster, Yi Guan, Malik Peiris, and Honglin Chen)
In over 40 years of experience with influenza, the Asian H5N1 is the most virulent virus I have encountered (R.G.W.); if it does acquire consistent human-to-human transmissibility— it will likely be catastrophic.