Christine Loescher

You know, bird sanctuaries, they were going to places that are outside of the norm in terms of travelling.

So maybe we need to think that as we travel more, we need to be more conscious of exposure to viruses that maybe just haven't been in general circulation.

This is probably the first outbreak of Hantavirus outside of those countries.

endemic places.

No I don't think so and I think that that's I think whatever about a rush to a vaccine I definitely think that there might be a push towards looking at whether or not there's a specific antiviral or some sort of treatment that might help in a subset of viruses that cause this type of you know respiratory pulmonary kind of you know dysfunction or failure in people.

So it might prompt that.

I mean, I thought it was interesting that somebody on News Talk yesterday was talking about the fact that there's been a little spike in the cost of the shares for some of the pharma companies, and they think it's coming off the back of people saying, I wonder, will there be a drive to kind of create new treatments for viruses?

And you can't rule that out.

But I think it does highlight the fact that there are still viruses out there that we have no defence against.