Robert G. Webster,St. Jude's Childrens Hsptl.

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Robert G. Webster,St. Jude's Childrens Hsptl.

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Robert G. Webster, Rosemary Thomas Chair, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.

"I personally believe it will happen and make personal preparations."
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May 3, 2006 Robert G. Webster

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This is the worst flu virus I have ever seen or worked with or read about."
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December 2006

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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)
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.
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