It's like looking at bread crumbs, but you don't see the whole loaf.

Immediate reporting by poultry keepers and their community leaders is the biggest safeguard for people?s health status.

They are learning to live with the disease and control it when it appears.

The virus may be spreading despite the control measures already taken. Far more human and animal exposure to the virus will occur if strict containment does not isolate all known and unknown locations where the bird flu virus is currently present.

The virus may be spreading despite the control measures already taken.

A complete cull of all rural poultry in the country is not necessary and we were very vocal about this when I was there [in Turkey].

Avian influenza has not been a priority for Indonesians.

It's very easy to blame bird migration, because then no one's responsible. Migrating birds may introduce the virus into an area, but it is human activity that spreads it.

This is unlikely to make any significant contribution to the protection of humans against avian influenza.