Nothing has changed in the ash. The Health Department wants to change the standards. We've never done nothing illegal here and we're not going to.

Originally, less than a handful of people had a problem with us doing what we're going to be doing. Now it's pretty much the whole community.

I've been working on it a long time, but there's just too much opposition in the community.

To really see a change in people's health, these programs must grow significantly.

Health care isn't fundamentally different in the way we approach things, but because of the rapid pace of change and the complexity of it all, it puts an extra impetus on lawyers to stay on top of things.

As long as H5N1 remains a bird virus, the threat to human health is not grave. But influenza viruses change constantly, and the danger is that, in the future, it could evolve into a virus that is easily transmissible among humans.