WHO Warns of Flu Pandemic
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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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(CBS) The world is closer to the next flu pandemic &quot;than we have ever been before&quot; and it may kill 2 million to 7 million people, a World Health Organization expert said Thursday.
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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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A medical expert has warned 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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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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HONG KONG A global pandemic of avian influenza is &quot;very, very likely&quot; and could kill tens of millions of people around the world, a top World Health Organization official said Monday.
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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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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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Asia faces an outbreak of  unprecedented proportions as it grapples with avian influenza,  which the World Health Organization warns could develop into a  pandemic unless detection and prevention methods are improved.
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BANGKOK : An influenza pandemic is being predicted to affect every country leaving millions dead and make more than a quarter of the world&#39;s population ill with no vaccines available until at least next March, according to the World Health Organisation.
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MIAMI - The world is at great risk of a new pandemic of deadly bird flu, but is ill-prepared to handle it, a top World Health Organization official said at an international conference in Miami on Monday.
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Governments around the world need to do more to prepare for the dramatic economic impact of the next flu pandemic, the United Nations influenza coordinator said on Thursday.
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Experts urged governments on Thursday to do more to prepare for a possible influenza pandemic and beef up surveillance on the spread of bird flu in all animals and humans.
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Fears of a flu pandemic originating from the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus were overblown, the head of the World Organization for Animal Health said Thursday.
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11/1/04- With growing worries about the possibility of a global flu pandemic, the World Health Organization has announced plans to hold a summit to draft emergency response plans.
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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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BANGKOK: An influenza pandemic is likely to affect every country in the world leaving millions dead with no vaccines available until at least next March, the World Health Organisation has warned.