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UN warns that Asian bird flu outbreaks still occurring, calls for continued control efforts

25 February 2004
As officials from nearly two dozen Asia-Pacific countries prepared to gather in Bangkok for an emergency meeting on bird flu, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today warned that outbreaks of the highly virulent disease are still occurring and stressed the need for continued control campaigns.

Prevention of contact, not killing of wild birds, needed to fight bird flu - UN

18 February 2004
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today that killing wild birds is not an appropriate measure to control the spread of bird flu, which has already ravaged domestic poultry farming in nine Asian countries and led to 29 human cases, 20 of them fatal.

Bird flu still spreading in Asia despite culling of 80 million chickens – UN

13 February 2004
Although some 80 million chickens have so far been culled to fight the Asian bird flu epidemic, the spread of the virus is still not under control in several countries, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today.

UN experts urge targeted bird flu vaccination backed by global funding

5 February 2004
United Nations experts fighting the Asian bird flu epidemic today called for possible targeted vaccination of poultry outside infected sites, along with mass cullings inside them and substantial international financial aid, to stop the virus spreading among birds and reduce its potential to infect humans.

UN food agency gives aid to four Asian countries hit by bird flu outbreak

4 February 2004
The United Nations food arm has announced it is giving four Asian countries – Cambodia, Laos, Pakistan and Viet Nam – $1.6 million to help them battle the recent outbreak of avian influenza or “bird flu.”
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UN and animal health experts begin urgent meeting on 'bird flu' crisis

3 February 2004
Two United Nations agencies joining forces with the World Animal Health Organization (OIE) today began an urgent expert meeting to discuss the outbreak of avian influenza, or "bird flu," and to draw up a coordinated response.
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'Bird flu' could have spread among two humans, WHO reports

2 February 2004
While seeking to avoid raising undue alarm, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today reported that avian influenza, or “bird flu,” might have spread from a Vietnamese husband to his sister and wife earlier this year.
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Bird flu: UN agency calls for mass cullings, international aid for compensation

30 January 2004
With a highly contagious strain of bird flu erupting in Asia and fears that in a worst case scenario it could mutate into a deadly human-to-human infection, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today called for speedy mass killing of exposed birds and international aid to farmers hit by the measures.
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UN agencies call for urgent funding to prevent bird flu becoming global threat

27 January 2004
With the unprecedented spread of “bird flu” in Asia raising the spectre of a human pandemic and causing disaster for agricultural production, United Nations agencies today appealed to international donors to provide funds and technical assistance to help eliminate the global threat, including the mass killing of infected birds.

Human cases of ‘bird flu’ confirmed in south Viet Nam, UN health agency says

26 January 2004
Two more human cases of avian influenza, or “bird flu,” have been confirmed in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam – the first to come from the country’s south, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has reported.