WHO warns of threat to billions from flu pandemic
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An influenza pandemic is being predicted to affect every country leaving millions dead and make more than a quarter of the world's population ill with no vaccines available until at least next March, according to the World Health Organisation.
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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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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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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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The World Health Organization (news - web sites) (WHO) on Thursday pressed drug makers to accelerate work on a vaccine against a dreaded influenza pandemic which could kill millions of people.
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The World Health Organization (WHO)Thursday warned that the recent appearance and widespread distribution of an avian influenza virus, Influenza A/H5N1, has the potential to ignite
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INTERNATIONAL health authorities have warned that the world is overdue for a major influenza pandemic, which could strike Australia and kill thousands.
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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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Every country in the world must come up with a plan urgently to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia
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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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World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that an outbreak of bird flu mixed with a human influenza virus could kill millions of people across the globe that had the potential to be worse than the SARS virus.
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Governments must brace for a future flu outbreak because one will strike inevitably, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
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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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The global spread of the influenza virus will threaten the health of nearly everyone on Earth, but very little is being done to prevent its potential devastation, according to World Health Organization experts.
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TORONTO - The alarm now sounds with increasing frequency and urgency: the world could be on the brink of an influenza pandemic sparked by the highly virulent avian flu strain ravaging poultry stocks in Southeast Asia, experts fear.
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Hong Kong - Up to 100-million people could die in weeks if a bird flu pandemic broke out, a senior World Health Organisation (WHO) official has warned while urging countries to make urgent preparations to mitigate its spread.
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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.