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On poultry farms, battle against bird flu showing some success, UN agency says

6 April 2006
Although bird flu outbreaks continue in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Near East, with its arrival confirmed in 45 countries, efforts to combat the disease on poultry farms are slowly proving successful, the United Nations agricultural aid agency said today.

Bird flu: countries must share information despite fears of short-term losses – UN

30 March 2006
Some countries worry that sharing information about bird flu will affect their economies, poultry industry and tourism business, but transparency is still the long-term solution for those concerns, a senior United Nations point man in the fight against the disease said today.
Kofi Annan

Bird flu: Annan pleads for urgent aid to poor countries, especially in Africa

29 March 2006
Deeply concerned by the rapid spread of bird flu, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today made an impassioned plea for greater funding beyond the $1.9 billion already pledged to help poor countries, above all in Africa, to fight a disease that in a worst case scenario could mutate into a deadly human pandemic.

As bird flu spreads, UN health agency says properly cooked poultry poses no risk

27 March 2006
With bird flu spreading to wild or domestic birds in 17 new countries since the beginning of last month, the United Nations health agency again stressed today that humans are not at risk of acquiring the deadly infection through food when poultry products are safely handled and properly cooked.

Bird flu may prove big threat to biological diversity – UN environment agency

22 March 2006
A far wider range of species, some of them rare and endangered, may be affected by highly virulent avian flu than has previously been supposed, ranging from big cats like leopards and tigers to other mammals like martens, weasels and badgers to 80 per cent of all bird species, the United Nations environmental agency warned today.

Bird flu’s human death toll passes 100, UN health agency reports

21 March 2006
The human death toll from bird flu has now passed 100, following the confirmation of five new fatal cases in Azerbaijan, possibly as a result of collecting feathers from dead swans, the United Nations health agency reported today.
Syed Mohammad Amin Fatimi

Bird flu confirmed by UN in Afghan birds

16 March 2006
The bird flu strain that experts fear could trigger a potentially lethal human pandemic was confirmed in birds in yet another country today, Afghanistan, and the United Nations mission there and the Government have taken immediate steps to prevent further infection, including culling and market closures.

UN outlines rapid reaction teams to try to contain human bird flu pandemic

10 March 2006
Training exercises are to be conducted worldwide over the next few months to set up rapid reaction teams of experts to help put measures in place to slow and stop the potential spread of a lethal human bird flu epidemic, a senior United Nations health official said today.
Lee Jong-wook

Africa must curb bird flu and its chances of jumping to humans – UN health chief

9 March 2006
It is critical for African countries to limit the spread of bird flu in animals and the concurrent opportunities for the virus to mutate into a potentially deadly human pandemic on a continent where veterinary and human health services are weaker than elsewhere, the head of the United Nations health agency said today.
Dr. David Nabarro

As wild fowl spread avian flu over continents, UN prepares for human pandemic

8 March 2006
With wild birds spreading the avian flu virus further into Africa and Europe, the United Nations system was stepping up assistance to countries in their efforts to contain the virus in birds and conducting simulation exercises to prepare strategies for quick action on a human future pandemic, the official in charge of the effort said today.