WHO Bird Flu Expert Urges Speeding Vaccine
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The top World Health Organization (WHO) influenza expert said on Friday drug companies and governments had to speed up production of bird flu vaccines or risk a pandemic which could kill thousands of people.
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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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Dr Klaus Stohr, an international expert, said the bird flu virus is the most probable cause of the next human flu pandemic. He believes it could affect one third of the world&#39;s population.
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Sep 14, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Avian influenza and other diseases that originated in animals show that the World Health Organization (WHO) needs to pay more attention to animal health, the WHO&#39;s regional director for the Western Pacific said at an
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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 (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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International health experts called on Tuesday for rapid worldwide access to promising but expensive cervical cancer vaccines that have the potential to save a quarter of a million lives a year.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has seen no sign that the H5N1 bird flu virus is infecting humans more easily, despite concerns expressed by a senior Indonesian official, a WHO spokesman said on Wednesday.
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GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that despite new research indicating some resistance to Tamiflu, it remained its âdrug of choiceâ for protection against bird flu and in case of a human flu pandemic.
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Government scientists - sure that somewhere out there a bird flu virus has humanity&#39;s name on it - are speeding up efforts to understand how the viruses evolve and spread.
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Asian countries need half a billion dollars more to combat a possible bird flu pandemic, India's health minister said, as health and agriculture experts from 11 Asian countries met in New Delhi.
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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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A vaccine against the killer H5N1 bird flu virus could be licensed for human use in a year, but when to use it is becoming a "tricky issue", a senior World Health Organization official said on Wednesday.
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The World Health Organization (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 is urging drugmakers including GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Sanofi-Aventis SA and Chiron Corp. to join in developing a vaccine to stop Asia&#39;s deadly bird flu virus from triggering a pandemic.
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Hong Kong - Up to 100 million people could die within weeks if a bird flu pandemic broke out, a senior World Health Organisation official warned on Monday as he urged nations to make urgent preparations to mitigate its spread.
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The deadly H5N1 form of the bird flu virus is rapidly mutating and the world must be on guard even though the disease has yet to be transmitted between humans, experts told a meeting in Beijing, Chinese media said on Tuesday.