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.

This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

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

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.

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.

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 spread.

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