The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.

A lot of that money is now being spent in countries, in Indonesia, in Vietnam, in Cambodia, in countries in central and eastern Europe such as Turkey, Nigeria, and also Central Asia.

The money is only the beginning. The process of preparing is going to require very careful monitoring and review, and that's the work ahead.

We viewed this as the beginning. I'm not for a minute suggesting that the amounts of money we are talking about at the Beijing meet are all that's going to be needed.

There will be an influenza pandemic sometime, but we don't know when. It could be mild, it could be severe, it could be extremely severe.

Act as though a pandemic influenza will start tomorrow. Don't think we can wait around and not worry it won't start for six months or one year. Once, it starts it is too late to prepare.