WHO warns of epidemic risk
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Infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever, the World Health Organization annual report says.
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The World Health Organisation warns mix of avian and human flu might kill up to seven million people around the world. Guangdong authorities launch a SARS alarm.
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BANGKOK - An influenza pandemic is likely to affect every country, leaving millions dead and more than a quarter of the world&#39;s population ill, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.
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GENEVA - The World Health Organization has warned again that a global bird flu pandemic is almost inevitable and could create a health situation worse than the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
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An infectious disease expert is warning that the United States and other countries aren&#39;t prepared for an outbreak of bird flu.
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AIDS experts yesterday issued chilling warnings that India, China and Russia were on the brink of epidemics to parallel those in Africa.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on  Tuesday voiced concern about the spread of bird flu in Vietnam,  but said it was not considering warning against travel there as  the risk of human infection was low.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday voiced concern about the spread of bird flu in Vietnam, but said it was not considering warning against travel there as the risk of human infection was low.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Survivors of last month's  quake and tsunami in Indonesia still face the risk of deadly  disease outbreaks such as cholera, but epidemics could be  controlled, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO)   urged small Pacific islands nations on Tuesday to do more to   prepare emergency plans for a possible birdflu outbreak and   human influenza pandemic, warning no nation could be immune.
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The United Nations warned on Monday of epidemics within days unless health systems in south and southeast Asia can cope after some 12,000 people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless by giant tsunami waves.
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Asia-Pacific risks an AIDS crisis similar in scale to Africa's unless governments across the region step up efforts to combat the spread of the disease, the United Nations is warning.
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International health experts warn that conditions are set for a pandemic to erupt in Southeast Asia and China that could kill millions worldwide if the virus developed into a form capable of spreading among humans.
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Diarrhoea cases were reported to be rapidly increasing yesterday in the tsunami disaster zone and the United Nations warned that there could be only 48 hours to prevent the major outbreak of waterborne diseases.
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GENEVA - Governments must brace for a future flu outbreak because one will strike inevitably, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
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The World Health Organization is warning countries experiencing outbreaks of bird flu (H5N1) in poultry to be aware that domestic ducks may be infecting humans, as well as other poultry with the bird flu virus.
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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.