SARS outbreak unlikely according to World Health Organization
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The regional head of the World Health Organization said today that it was possible the region would experience SARS cases this winter, but he doubted the situation would be serious.
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THE HAGUE -- The world is unprepared for an inevitable flu pandemic that could kill tens of millions of people, but profit-driven pharmaceutical companies are putting too little research into the development of vaccines, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
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Preventing outbreaks of diseases across tsunami-hit Asia is a race against time, but contrary to popular belief, the thousands of rotting corpses do not pose the main threat, health officials said on Thursday.
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join representatives of16 vaccine companies on Nov. 111 for a summit in Geneva, Switzerland on a potential flu pandemic. The influenza chief of the United Nations&#39; health agency, the World Health Organization
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Director of the World Health Organization&#39;s Regional Office for Western Pacific Shigeru Omi says he is more concerned about the menace of bird flu to human beings than SARS.
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International health officials at an emergency meeting in Bangkok Monday said there is no evidence that bird flu has been passed from one human to another.
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The World Health Organization said on Tuesday thousands of people had fallen ill with cholera in northern Iraq, but the cause of the outbreak had not been identified.
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A health official in the Philippines said Monday a meningitis-like disease that killed eight people is not an outbreak, despite 18 new cases recorded in November.
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EMMA ALBERICI: United Nations officials fear the death toll could double as outbreaks of disease unleash a second wave of tragedy.
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The World Health Organization said on Saturday it was investigating "an outbreak of an unknown illness with a high mortality rate" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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New York (VNA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said an outbreak of disease could crop up in the wake of the Dec. 26 Tsunami, killing as many people as lost their lives in the initial disaster.
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The first probable case of one person infecting another with bird flu, announced by Thailand on Tuesday, may be a one-off event implying no new big threat to human health, a World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman said.
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The bird flu virus is far more lethal  than the SARS virus that struck Asia last year and could  unleash a pandemic that could kill as many as 50 million  people, a World Health Organization official said Monday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) Friday called for measures to prevent a flu pandemic in humans after China said a deadly strain of bird flu was found in pigs, adding to signs that an outbreak among people was likely.
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The World Health Organization (WHO)  Thursday cast doubt on Indonesia's claim that a bird flu strain  that had killed millions of chickens in the country could not  be transmitted to humans.
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Description: The world&#39;s first public health treaty is set to become international law, but the United States has yet to ratify it.
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Dead bodies cannot cause disease outbreaks, the Pan American Health Organization said Wednesday, hoping to avert mass burials of tens of thousands of unidentified victims from the tsunami in Asia and Africa.