“It is up to us to assist countries in making sure that they have the right drug policy and we believe that we're doing that. A number of countries have changed their drug policy over the last couple of years and we would advise others to do so.”
“We hope we will be able to announce tomorrow (Wednesday) that Egypt has now been polio-free for a year. That would mean polio is no longer considered to be endemic in Egypt.”
“There is still work going on the other nine samples, but the preliminary results from the collaborating centre in London suggest that those are not H5N1.”