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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

The greatest lesson a tree can give you is to stand tall and proud, no matter how strong life’s winds blow against you.

Go forward and accomplish your God-given goals.

There is no cap to the potential within us, except when we place one on ourselves.

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision

At some point, we have to stop a force that's going out and drowning people in steel cages and chopping off heads.

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?