In around 80 percent of cases (in Asia) so far there is obvious contact with sick birds. That means that there are few cases where we have no clear exposure history, either because the case came to knowledge late or information is incomplete or we really don't know.

It's not very much, it's rather puny. They definitely need some more.

It's not what we call extensive human-to-human transmission ... It doesn't mean mutation.

Definitely the whole international community is very much present,

When you look at Vietnam, Thailand or Cambodia and Indonesia, what they have done right is that after the initial sort of confusion and not understanding what was going on and perhaps not notifying everyone, there has been a lot of action taken and a lot of openness,

We are concerned that the virus may still circulate after this campaign,

We need to prepare - every country - for an eventual massive influenza epidemic that puts perhaps up to 30 percent of the workforce in bed,

It confirms what we have thought for a while, that the H5N1 virus is widely spread in Indonesia.

The problem with this country, as in many Asian countries is that a large portion of the chickens are raised by farmers in their backyard and even within the cities, people are raising chickens and this is very difficult to control.

What we know is that from one clear case in Thailand and probably in other cases there has been close family contact and this is why it could have gone from one person to another,