H5N1 avian influenza poses unprecedented global challenge: WHO ...
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TORONTO (CP) - The world faces an unprecedented challenge from the spread of H5N1 avian influenza in Asia, a conference on global infectious diseases was told Tuesday.
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The World Health Organization is warning Asian nations that its current struggle with bird flu could lead to the next deadly human flu pandemic across the globe.
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Nigeria's first human fatality from bird flu is confirmed as the H5N1 strain by the World Health Organisation.
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The head of the World Health Organization&#39;s global influenza program has nominated the bird flu virus in Asia as the most likely cause of the world&#39;s next flu pandemic.
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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) 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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BANGKOK: The human toll from bird flu has reached 31 with the confirmation in Thailand of the death of a nine-year-old girl. Indonesia also concedes it is among the countries still struggling with Asia&#39;s continuing outbreaks.
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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 is closer to the next flu pandemic that may kill up to 7 million people, a World Health Organization expert warns. A worldwide outbreak is closer than ever because of bird flu, says Klaus Stohr, coordinator of WHO&#39;s global influenza program.
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Up to 100 million people around the world could be killed in a pandemic of human influenza, a World Health Organization official warned Monday.
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Shanghai. (Interfax-China) -The World Health Organization (WHO) warned the of potential dangers of an outbreak of influenza H5N1 infections in pigs in China.
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A World Health Organization expert is ominously warning there&#39;s no question the global population will face another flu pandemic, it&#39;s just a matter of when.
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A top World Health Organization official warned Saturday of a likely global pandemic of avian flu unless tougher efforts are made to combat the virus&#39;s spread and improve sanitation in the poultry industry.
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GENEVA -- The U.N. health chief on Wednesday harshly criticized countries that do not share their H5N1 virus samples, accusing them of crippling the world in the fight against a possible flu pandemic.
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Bangkok (AsiaNews/Agencies) - The first case of transmission of the H5N1 virus between humans could have taken place in Thailand, this according to Kumara Rai, acting Thailand representative for the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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Health India &gt; Washington, Nov 13 : An influenza pandemic, when it arrives, could be the largest health disaster witnessed by mankind and countries need to gear up efforts to develop a vaccine to prevent this potential devastation, experts have said.
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ROME : The bird flu epidemic in Asia is a &quot;crisis of global importance&quot; and the virus is unlikely to be eradicated soon, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) warned.