鈥淲e cannot confirm that [human-to-human transmission] has occurred but we cannot rule it out.鈥�
I Nyoman Kandun, director of Indonesia鈥檚 communicable disease control centre, following an investigation into whether five human cases of H5N1 bird flu in Sumatra were caused by human-to-human transmission of the virus (AFP, 22 May)
鈥淲e understand that [the missile] has been brought to the site, but we are not sure about subsequent moves.鈥�
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Japan鈥檚 foreign minister Taro Aso, following reports that North Korea is preparing to test a ballistic missile capable of reaching the US (The Boston Globe, 19 May)
鈥淎 lot of people think of Einstein as a mathematical genius 鈥� he wasn鈥檛.鈥�
David McMullan, a physicist at the University of Plymouth, UK, on Einstein鈥檚 struggles as revealed in an archive of his papers (The Guardian, London, 22 May)
鈥淭his is a disease that is completely sexually transmitted. We believe that parents should have the final say on whether to vaccinate their children.鈥�
Linda Klepacki of the evangelical Christian group Focus on the Family, on whether vaccination against cervical cancer should be made mandatory for admission to US schools (Reuters, 21 May)
鈥淚 find it appalling that the National Health Service should be funding a therapy like homeopathy that is utterly bogus.鈥�
Michael Baum of University College London, who is leading a group of doctors and scientists in the UK urging the NHS to stop funding alternative medicine and to use the money to fund conventional treatments instead (The Times, London, 23 May)