We haven't identified anything about this strain that's different from strains in the other areas.

[That is] something that we're evaluating very carefully to determine whether or not there's anything about this particular flu strain that's preferentially affecting children or causing more severe disease in children, ... We don't know the answer to the question yet. It is common for children to develop severe influenza and for deaths to occur in every flu season, unfortunately, so it will take us some time to figure that out.

We've probably never been closer to a pandemic than the year 1917.

We still have no capacity to predict where it's going.

Right now in the shelters where most of the people are located we have seen sporadic reports of gastrointestinal illness,

There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at a map that shows widespread influenza activity in 36 states, that we regard it -- from a common-sense perspective -- as an epidemic.