WHO Raises Specter of Human Bird Flu Transmission
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has  raised the specter of human-to-human transmission of deadly  avian influenza following confirmation that two Vietnamese  brothers had contracted the virus and one had died.
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Officials are concerned about the possible spread of serious ailments such as cholera, typhoid and malaria and also issued warnings about the bird flu virus.
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likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year, says a top global health expert. &quot;No country will be spared once it becomes a pandemic,&quot; he told a news conference on Friday.
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The World Health Organization warned Monday that countries should be on alert for bird flu because it is again on the move
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The World Health Organisation says international drug companies and governments must speed up production of bird flu vaccines or risk a pandemic which could kill thousands of people.
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A case of bird flu in Thailand sparks fears of human to human transmission.
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The Department of Health is setting up a surveillance system against bird flu to aid health workers to manage possible cases of the disease among humans, it was learned Saturday.
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Two United Nations agencies have warned that bird flu is &quot;a crisis of global importance&quot;. A joint statement from the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Organisation for Animal Health says the
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BANGKOK: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has criticised Thailand for not doing enough to monitor birds capable of carrying the deadly avian flu virus, the media reports, following the kingdom&#39;s ninth human death.
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SHANGHAI: The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of a global outbreak of avian influenza unless greater efforts are made to fight the disease in countries already affected
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Sep 14, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Avian influenza and other diseases that originated in animals show that the World Health Organization (WHO) needs to pay more attention to animal health, the WHO&#39;s regional director for the Western Pacific said at an
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Asian nations have vowed to work together to combat bird flu after warnings it could lead to a human influenza pandemic that could kill millions and make nearly a third of the world ill.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday confirmed Myanmar's first human case of bird flu in a seven year-old girl who survived the disease.
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Government scientists - sure that somewhere out there a bird flu virus has humanity&#39;s name on it - are speeding up efforts to understand how the viruses evolve and spread.
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THAILAND has confirmed its first likely case of human-to-human infection of bird flu, hours after UN agencies labelled the disease a &quot;crisis of global importance&quot;.
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Asian countries need half a billion dollars more to combat a possible bird flu pandemic, India's health minister said, as health and agriculture experts from 11 Asian countries met in New Delhi.
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The deadly H5N1 form of the bird flu virus is rapidly mutating and the world must be on guard even though the disease has yet to be transmitted between humans, experts told a meeting in Beijing, Chinese media said on Tuesday.