The improvement of surveillance in rural areas is the most difficult challenge for us.

But if we fail, the consequences for societies, economies and global public health could be immeasurable.

In fact, fear that their flocks might be culled without compensation is a pretty strong disincentive to report an outbreak.

In my view, Asia is doing quite reasonably well for communicable diseases that now we have reached the point we can afford to discuss suicides and mental health problems in general.

In my view this is connected by the differences in the farming practices. In the West farming practices are well controlled -- ducks, chickens and humans do not mingle together.

In spite of this geographical expansion and diversity in the nature of the virus, when it comes to the risk of transmission, we don't have any hard evidence to indicate that the virus has become more infectious.

I'm quite optimistic on how much support will be given.

I hope that we'll get the samples soon.

TB-HIV co-infection threatens to reverse the steady progress toward achieving this goal.

The number of human cases is on the rise ... and the virus continues to remain very changeable.