This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

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

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.

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 virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.

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 a result.

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