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Friday, November 26, 2004
Not Good...
[Media Source*] Not good at all. According to medical scientists are predicting a world wide pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year.
"I believe we are closer now to a pandemic than at any time in recent years," said Shigeru Omi, regional director for the Western Region of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Ducks are displayed for sale at a poultry market in Hanoi, November
26, 2004. Every country in the world must come up urgently 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.
"No country will be spared once it becomes a pandemic," he told a news conference.
"History has taught us that influenza pandemic occur on a regular cycle, with one appearing every 20 to 30 years. On this basis, the next one is overdue," he said at a conference of 13 Asian health ministers trying to figure out how to avoid one.Well, hopefully you are one of those people able to acquire a vaccine fast enough. According to Omi, unless nations work together to fight this latest disease, the consequences could be severe. Selah.
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