U.N. bird flu chief: Expect more cases
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The world should expect more bird flu outbreaks in the coming months, the U.N. official coordinating the global fight against the virus warned Sunday after Britain recorded its first case of the H5N1 strain on a commercial farm.
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The World Health Organisation says international drug companies and governments must speed up production of bird flu vaccines or risk a pandemic which could kill thousands of people.
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An infectious disease expert is warning that the United States and other countries aren&#39;t prepared for an outbreak of bird flu.
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A mutant form of bird flu virus could kill as many as 7 million people worldwide and infect nearly one-third of the world&#39;s population, according to the World Health Organization&#39;s projections.
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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.
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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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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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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 urgently 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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The World Health Organization warned Monday that countries should be on alert for bird flu because it is again on the move, with Pakistan reporting South Asia's first human infections and Myanmar logging its first human case.
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BANGKOK - The World Health Organization on Friday urged Asian countries to provide full disclosure and strengthen the information-sharing to curb the bird flu outbreak.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has  confirmed five human bird flu cases in Vietnam, four of them  fatal, the U.N. agency said in a statement.
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A global crisis of bird flu will threaten animal and human life in the near future, UN agencies warn.
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Experts urged governments on Thursday to do more to prepare for a possible influenza pandemic and beef up surveillance on the spread of bird flu in all animals and humans.
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The head of the World Health Organization&#39;s global influenza program has nominated the bird flu virus in Asia as the most likely cause of the world&#39;s next flu pandemic.
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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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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.