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Archive (15 November 2005)

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World Summit on the Information Society to Seek Agreement on Internet Governance
First Islamic Ministerial Conference on the Child
A Plan to Mitigate the Threat of a Human Pandemic from the Avian Flu

Today's Features

Malawi Small-Business Owner Is Winner of the Global Micro-entrepreneurship Ward

Security Council Mission to Central Africa

Today's News

UNHCR Warns Against Internet Resettlement Fraud

Bosnia and Herzegovina Has Made Progress in Restoring Stability

Human Rights Chief is Concerned about Conviction of 15 Uzbek Men

WHO and Chinese Health Ministry Probe Avian Flu in Hunan Province

Thousands of Delegates Gather in Tunisia for World Summit on the Information Society

Perspective

AVIAN FLU: The international community is preparing for the possibility that the avian flu virus will mutate into a human flu virus and develop into a pandemic influenza. Global meetings have already taken place at UN headquarters in New York and WHO headquarters in Geneva. The Food and Agricultural Organization is working with affected countries to curb the spread of avian flu through vaccinating birds, isolating domestic birds from wild birds, and if necessary culling them. South-East Asian countries in which human deaths have occurred from avian flu - Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia - also discuss their strategies. WHO considers avian flu a major global public health challenge.