Bird flu pandemic could cost $2 trln: World Bank
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A severe bird flu pandemic among   humans could cost the global economy up to $2 trillion, the   World Bank said on Sunday, sharply raising earlier estimates.
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The United Nations&#39; World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a dramatic warning that bird flu will trigger an international pandemic that could kill up to seven million people.
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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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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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The world has moved significantly closer to developing vaccines against a bird flu pandemic, but is still not able to make them in the amounts needed, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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The World Health Organization has confirmed two more cases of bird flu in Indonesia, one of them fatal, bringing the country's death toll from the virus to 48.
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Much more vaccine needs to be produced to cope with a possible pandemic of bird flu, experts warn.
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The World Health Organization still lacks half the funds it needs to help countries fight bird flu as more human cases are expected in the coming months, the acting director-general said Tuesday.
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Two United Nations agencies have warned that bird flu is &quot;a crisis of global importance&quot;. A joint statement from the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Organisation for Animal Health says the
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The discovery of a lethal strain of bird flu in Chinese pigs has taken the world closer to a human flu pandemic but there is no need to panic yet, the World Health Organisation said.
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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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Limited human-to-human bird flu transmission may have occurred in Pakistan, but no new infections have been reported for two weeks and there appears to be no threat of further spread, a top World Health Organization official said.
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The bird flu virus that rampaged across much of Asia this year is the most likely cause of the next human flu pandemic, which could hit up to 30 percent of the world&#39;s people, a top international expert said Thursday.
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Every country in the world must come up with a plan to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year, a top global health expert said on Friday.
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A senior World Health Organization official warned Monday a deadly pandemic of avian flu could easily and quickly kill as many as 100 million people worldwide.
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Global health experts have warned Southeast Asia it must unite to combat the spread of bird flu. The World health Organisation says the virus has the potential to become the next human influenza pandemic.
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BANGKOK, Thailand Officials of the World Health Organization say they fear the bird flu virus in Southeast Asia could become a worldwide pandemic capable of killing anywhere from two to seven (m) million people.