With the way the avian flu is spreading in Turkey we don't know what it may do when it reaches the United States.

It has been shown time and again with instances of transmittable diseases (such as SARS in Toronto) that if we have a plan and are clam then we could keep the number of infections down.

This is not a conference set up just for public health officials. It (the summit) is really aimed for people in government, hospitals in industry to learn how to handle a flu pandemic as a community.

We cannot kill all the chickens and ducks to prevent bird flu from spreading among them and to humans; therefore, we have to make sure the chickens, ducks and humans do not mingle together.

He never forgot the days when he didn't have a turkey.

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.