How did you come to be leading the mission to China for the World Health Organization? I have a long history in working in large-scale infectious disease and public health outbreaks and humanitarian emergencies. If you take all the public health measures you there at CBC are recommending and amplifying, and that Public Health Canada is amplifying, you can reduce your own personal risk down to a very, very, low level. Aylward speaks during a news conference of the World Health Organization on Feb. 19, 2016, about the Zika virus. Those lessons are really, really, clear.

Source: CBC News March 10, 2020 13:41 UTC