WHO sets talks on threat of flu pandemic
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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.
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The World Health Organization says that Asia faces a Bird Flu (avian flu) pandemic if things do not change soon. The WHO said that detection and prevention methods need a complete overhaul.
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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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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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US health officials are talking with several flu vaccine producers worldwide in hopes of securing doses to protect millions left vulnerable when manufacturing
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The World Health Organization (WHO)   urged small Pacific islands nations on Tuesday to do more to   prepare emergency plans for a possible birdflu outbreak and   human influenza pandemic, warning no nation could be immune.
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likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year, says a top global health expert. &quot;No country will be spared once it becomes a pandemic,&quot; he told a news conference on Friday.
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Football matches and concerts may be banned if there is a flu pandemic, under  plans being considered by ministers.
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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, 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.
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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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BANGKOK - An influenza pandemic is likely to affect every country, leaving millions dead and more than a quarter of the world&#39;s population ill, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.
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The World Health Organization has called a summit meeting of flu vaccine makers and nations for dealing with the growing threat of a flu 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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The outbreak of avian flu in Asia could become a pandemic, health experts have warned. Francois Xavier-Meslin, the World Health Organisation&#39;s disease control, prevention and eradication co-ordinator, said a health crisis is getting closer.
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WASHINGTON - The World Health Organization is about to hold a summit to prepare for what it says it the growing threat of a flu pandemic.
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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.