There is lip service and there is reality. The fact is the teamwork is not balanced. The U.S. prefers taking control of key operations (rather) than letting us handle the matter.

The service in Brighton over the years had become somewhat unreliable. The reality was there was not an ambulance service.

The reality of the equation is this is that we can't just hope that when debt service falls off that all our problems are solved. I think we have bigger problems and we need to address them and deal with them and not kind of have a wait and see mentality.

He had a history of contact with sick poultry. The results of his local tests came in today [Friday]. We have sent them to the World Health Organization (WHO) accredited laboratory in Hong Kong for confirmation.

We received the confirmation from WHO on Tuesday morning.

The results from Hong Kong arrived earlier today and confirmed that the two had died of bird flu.