There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people..

This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it..

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami..

The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker..

Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks are killed. And we have ….

We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving..

What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as ….

The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Blac….

Every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1 to be sure they are not caught unawares..

If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for the virus to sprea….