U.N. rules to contain health emergencies take hold
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New rules to help the United Nations contain public health emergencies took effect on Friday, requiring countries to disclose potential threats from disease, chemical agents, radioactive materials and contaminated food.
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New York (VNA) - Efforts to overcome the aftermath of the quake and subsequent tsunami in South and Southeast Asia need a close coordination of global emergency relief, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said at a press briefing in New York on
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The United Nations was put in charge of sorting out differences among countries offering to build a tsunami early warning system after a flood of proposals in the wake of the Indian Ocean tragedy.
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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Thursday for a stepped up fight against "neglected" diseases afflicting 1 billion people, mainly in poor countries.
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The U.N. Security Council has  called an emergency session on the crisis in the Ivory Coast  for later on Saturday, the U.N. spokesman's office said.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said here Tuesday that in order to help protect population in Sudan, maintained pressure will be needed.
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U.S. health regulators finalized guidelines on Thursday to speed development and production of vaccines against bird flu and seasonal strains of influenza.
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The World Health Organization, fearing a killer flu pandemic may be on the way, is stepping up efforts to ensure governments around the globe are ready to fight it, a top official said on Wednesday.
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TORONTO (CP) - The World Health Organization, key countries and major flu vaccine makers agreed Friday there is an urgent need to push forward with production and licensing of trial batches of pandemic influenza vaccine.
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About 60 experts meeting at the Geneva-based World Health Organization have agreed on a strategy to try to prevent and contain a global influenza outbreak that they say could kill millions of people.
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Indonesia will resume sharing bird flu  samples with the World Health Organization (WHO), but under a  new mechanism aimed at ensuring developing nations get access  to vaccines, the health minister and the WHO said on Friday.
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With worries growing about a possible flu pandemic, the World Health Organisation has called an unprecedented summit meeting for Nov. 11 in Geneva, Switzerland, to draft response plans in the event of a global
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The World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders and other international agencies have begun rushing medical teams, generators and other equipment to provide
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The United Nations warned on Monday of epidemics within days unless health systems in southern Asia can cope after more than 15,500 people were killed and hundreds of thousands left homeless by a giant tsunami.
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Closing schools, restricting travel and rationing scarce medications may be the nation's first protections if a powerful new flu strain spurs a worldwide outbreak because it will take months to brew a vaccine, say government preparations for the next pandemic.
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The World Health Organization issued new  guidelines on Tuesday on preventing contamination of drinking  water supplies and resultant illnesses.
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The United Nations is adopting new steps in its global tsunami-relief campaign to guard against improprieties like those alleged in the oil-for-food program for Iraq, U.N. officials said Monday.