The problems of the suburbs began in the 1980s.

There are declarations, there are tiny measures, but that's been the case for the last 30 years. You can't leave people without hope.

A WHO team is leaving tomorrow for Reunion, where they'll stay for several days, then to Mauritius, Madagascar and the Seychelles.

The first working hypothesis is that the children touched, played with sick chickens and were infected that way. But they are also going to try to see if we are faced with a first case of human-to-human transmission, which would be the start of a flu epidemic.

That would be the beginning of a human influenza epidemic but we are not there yet.

They (the dead) were certainly all in contact with the same source of infection, but they (the WHO team) will also try to see whether we are looking at the first cases of human-to-human transmission.