Region &#39;ill-prepared to handle flu pandemic&#39;
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SHANGHAI - When the next flu pandemic hits - and it will, say experts - Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan fears the worst. Speaking at the World Health Organisation&#39;s Ministerial Roundtable in Shanghai yesterday
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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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ORLANDO, Florida  - Memories of the 2001 anthrax attacks and planning mistakes haunt Dr. Julie Gerberding as she urges government and private companies to prepare for a potential bird flu pandemic.
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MIAMI - The world is at great risk of a new pandemic of deadly bird flu, but is ill-prepared to handle it, a top World Health Organization official said at an international conference in Miami on Monday.
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International health experts warn that conditions are set for a pandemic to erupt in Southeast Asia and China that could kill millions worldwide if the virus developed into a form capable of spreading among humans.
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Regional Health Department works to make sure that area&#39;s elderly people living in group settings receive scarce flu shots. A new supply of flu vaccine is finding its way to area nursing homes.
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The federal government's voluminous plans for dealing with pandemic flu do not adequately account for the overwhelming strain an outbreak would place on hospitals and public health systems trying to cope with millions of seriously ill Americans, some public health experts and local health officials...
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Health experts warned today that the world was closer to its next pandemic - a potent mix of bird flu and a human influenza virus, with Asia as its likely epicentre.
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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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BANGKOK A day after Thai and international officials confirmed the first probable human-to-human transmission of a virulent strain of avian influenza in this country, public health systems around the globe were scrambling to prepare for a possible pandemic
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where public health systems, already weak, are now overwhelmed. &quot;There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable
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WASHINGTON Aug. 25, 2004 - Closing schools, restricting travel and rationing scarce medications may be the nation&#39;s first protections if a powerful new flu strain spurs a worldwide outbreak because it will
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Officials from Virginia and the District said yesterday they need better cooperation from federal agencies to ensure that medicine is rushed to key government employees during a pandemic flu outbreak.
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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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Scientists hope the understanding of past flu pandemics can help us better prepare for future crises.
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BANGKOK: An influenza pandemic is likely to affect every country in the world leaving millions dead with no vaccines available until at least next March, the World Health Organisation has warned.
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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