WHO Urges More Flu Vaccine Efforts Before Pandemic
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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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Health officials say there is not enough flu vaccine for the area&#39;s high-risk population because of a nationwide shortage of vaccine.
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Health officials are urging parents and doctors to vaccinate even very young children for influenza to prevent a repeat of last year&#39;s unusually high death rate among youngsters.
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Unlike last year when health officials urged more people to get flu vaccines, authorities are asking the public to save the supplies for those most at risk after half of the nation&#39;s anticipated supply of vaccine became unavailable last week.
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The World Health Organization has called an unprecedented summit of flu vaccine makers and nations next week to expand plans for dealing with the growing threat of a flu pandemic.
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TORONTO (CP) - The World Health Organization, key countries and major flu vaccine makers agreed Friday there is an urgent need to push forward with production and licensing of trial batches of pandemic influenza vaccine.
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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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Nov 12, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - The World Health Organization&#39;s top influenza expert warned at the end of a 2-day international meeting today that governments need to fund the development of vaccines to combat a feared flu pandemic that could kill millions
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U.S. officials asked business, health and religious groups on Wednesday to urge Americans to prepare for a possible flu pandemic with steps like storing food and supplies and staying home if ill.
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Health experts and drugs companies on Friday urged rich countries to come up with public funding to spur development of a human vaccine against a pandemic strain of the bird flu virus that could kill millions of people around the world within months.
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Building a stockpile of bird flu vaccine would help ensure poor countries do not lose out if a flu virus starts killing people worldwide, the World Health Organization's top flu official said Friday.
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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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Nov. 1, 2004 - If the shortage of flu vaccine was not enough to keep seniors worried, we now have the âflu pandemic,â which the UNâs World Health Organization says is âcloser than ever.
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Drug companies will not be able to make enough vaccine to prevent the next global flu pandemic, which health officials fear may be triggered by a viral strain originating in birds, a senior World Health Organisation official said today.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) called on here Tuesday African governments to provide more resources and show political commitment in the fight against maternal and neonatal mortality.
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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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The World Health Organization has called an unprecedented summit meeting next week for flu vaccine-makers and nations to expand plans for dealing with the growing threat of a flu pandemic.