“I don't know if we should be scared, but I think we should be putting pressure on for the resources to be made available to do the things that we know are at least going to make the problem less if it arrives,”
“This is a very nasty virus. It's doing enormous damage in the Far East at the moment, and it's got into Russia. If it got here, it would be economically disastrous, never mind the human impact, so we do need to be spending more than we have been spending.”
“It's a property of this virus that it can go into these animals. One just has to watch and see what happens because the virus has the property to evolve.”
