Flu Pandemic Will Kill Millions, UN Experts Predict
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Bird flu will trigger an influenza pandemic among people that could kill up to 7 million, experts from the United Nations&#39; World Health Organization predict.
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International health officials warned yesterday that the world was closer to its next pandemic - a potent mix of avian influenza and a human flu virus - and that Asia was likely to be its epicentre.
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Dr Klaus Stohr, an international expert, said the bird flu virus is the most probable cause of the next human flu pandemic. He believes it could affect one third of the world&#39;s population.
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The World Health Organisation has warned that a global Bird Flu pandemic is now inevitable. Officials say they fear the virus will spread globally within weeks, affect up to 30 per cent of the world&#39;s population and kill between two and 7 million people.
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A flu pandemic is almost certain to occur in the long term, but the likelihood of a large-scale outbreak in the next few years is less clear, a World Health Organization official said on Thursday.
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The outbreak of avian flu in Asia could become a pandemic, health experts have warned. Francois Xavier-Meslin, the World Health Organisation&#39;s disease control, prevention and eradication co-ordinator, said a health crisis is getting closer.
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Officials warned that the world was close to its next pandemic, a powerful and contagious mix of avian influenza and flu virus that would likely be centered in Asia.
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Scientists next month will begin human testing of a vaccine to combat a possible flu pandemic that experts have warned could kill as many as seven million people, a Hong Kong newspaper reported today.
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Every country in the world must come up with a plan urgently to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia
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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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HEALTH experts warned today that an outbreak of bird flu mixed with a human influenza virus could kill millions worldwide. The World Health Organisation said the outbreak had the potential to be worse than the Sars virus.
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Health officials are concerned about a Bird Flu outbreak they say could kill millions of people. The World Health Organization says as many as seven million people could die and billions of others could get
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WASHINGTON - The World Health Organization is about to hold a summit to prepare for what it says it the growing threat of a flu pandemic.
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A medical expert has warned that the next flu pandemic could wreck the global ecosystem, in addition to killing millions of people worldwide, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on  Friday urged governments to provide funds to drug makers  developing vaccines against a feared influenza pandemic, which  could kill millions of people.
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Health officials warned Monday that the world was close to its next pandemic - a powerful and highly contagious mix of avian influenza and flu virus that would likely be centered in Asia.
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SHANGHAI - When the next flu pandemic hits - and it will, say experts - Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan fears the worst. Speaking at the World Health Organisation&#39;s Ministerial Roundtable in Shanghai yesterday