We expect the outbreak in a week or two. School vacation will end soon. Along with this inevitable for physicians factor, the season of flue outbreak will come.

Russia has not come to the conference empty-handed. The Russian delegation plans to announce that Russia will allocate tens of millions of dollars over the period until 2009.

Our country, which holds the G8 presidency in 2006, will make its contribution to global efforts to combat bird flu.

An analysis of bird migration routes has shown that in autumn 2005...the H5N1 virus may be spread from Western Siberia to the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea.

We monitor the situation and we have not discovered any unconventional respiratory diseases in humans suggesting bird flu infection. Monitoring is underway in all districts of southern Russia. Luckily, no confirmed bird flu cases in humans have been reported.

We must do everything to keep them warm and give them a chance to wait out the cold spell in heated premises.