China Central Television and other major media say four new people living in different cities in Jiangsu province are in critical condition with H7N9, a strain of bird flu that was previously unknown in humans.
The requirement to perform two such operations in an overlapping time frame, while maintaining other critical deployment and retain a strategic reserve would strain a force of this size and character, perhaps to the breaking point.
Mr Persson readily admits that recruiting around 2, 000 new employees a year is a strain on his ability to maintain the flat management structure so critical to controlling costs.