A lot of that money is now being spent in Indonesia, Vietnam Cambodia, countries in central and eastern Europe, Turkey, Nigeria and Central Asia. |
Avian influenza is a big threat. It is spreading throughout the world. |
Because it is moving and because we believe wild birds are implicated, predicting where it's going to flare up next is a very tricky thing to do, and being able to know the scale of the flare-up is also quite tricky. |
Diseases do not know borders. They do not know borders between villages. They do not know borders between countries. |
Fingers-crossed it's going to be a good-sized pledge. |
Fingers-crossed, it's going to be a good-sized pledge. I think most of the countries are aware of the seriousness and the need to move money to poor countries. |
Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later. |
I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good. |
I don't know why they are not sharing those samples. |
I just think that every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1, to try to make sure that they don't get caught unawares and find that it gets into their poultry populations without knowing. |
I saw excellent work being done by Thailand. |
I'm sad to say we have not had a significant influx of cash for bird flu over the last two years since we've really started to get worried about it. |
In the Thai case we have seen the prime minister ask one of the deputy prime ministers to head an inter-ministry group. The high level of political attention is key. |
It is certainly within the next six to 12 months. And who knows, we've been wrong on other things, it could be earlier. |
It may well shift from Turkey into other European countries. The good news is that in Turkey it has only involved a small number of people. |