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Awareness campaign kicks off in Bangkok

Bird flu: UNICEF helps Thailand with preventive education in schools

11 October 2006
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is helping Thailand with a nationwide school-based campaign to protect children and their families from the spread of bird flu and the threat of its mutation into a deadly human pandemic.

UN’s Influenza Pandemic Task Force meets for the first time; will play advisory role

26 September 2006
The United Nations health agency’s Influenza Pandemic Task Force (IPTF), which will advise the world body on how best to respond to health issues of global concern related to bird flu and pandemic influenza, has held its first meeting in Geneva.

New UN guide helps Latin American farmers prevent avian influenza

30 August 2006
In order to help prevent a possible outbreak of avian flu in Latin America and the Caribbean and raise public awareness of the threat posed by the disease, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has published a new handbook for the region’s small-scale poultry farmers.
FAO calls for improved efforts

Bird flu a threat to southern Balkans, Caucasus region, warns UN agency

21 August 2006
Despite successful efforts to contain the spread of the deadly H5N1 virus, avian flu poses a threat to a growing number of countries, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which says the Caucasus and southern Balkans are now considered “high-risk” areas.
FAO calls for improved efforts

Bird flu virus becoming endemic in parts of Asia – UN

17 August 2006
Laboratory results show that a recent wave of bird flu in poultry in Thailand and Laos was the result of both old and new strains of the H5N1 virus, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today, calling for vigorous implementation of control measures to prevent further spread of the disease.
Jackie Chan and children film bird flu message

Actor Jackie Chan stars in UN-backed TV announcement warning about deadly bird flu

16 August 2006
World-famous actor and martial arts expert Jackie Chan stars in a United Nations-backed television public service announcement alerting children and their families around the world to the dangers of bird flu, which has killed more than 130 people worldwide and led to the deaths of 200 million birds.

Americas must prepare for bird flu, UN agencies and partners urge in new drive

25 July 2006
Though no cases of avian flu or its H5N1 virus have been reported yet in birds or humans anywhere in the Americas, United Nations health agencies and other partners today launched a new preparedness campaign for the disease, which they say could reach the hemisphere at any time and possibly mutate into a human pandemic.

Bird flu will remain a threat for years to come, experts warn at UN special meeting

10 July 2006
While bird flu has been successfully checked in Western Europe and much of Southeast Asia apart from Indonesia, it is still expanding in Africa and will remain a threat for years to come, with the number of countries affected doubling to 60 in just the two months from February to April, United Nations officials said today.

Risk of bird flu spreading in humans remains high – UN health agency

3 July 2006
The risk of bird flu evolving into a more transmissible agent in humans remains high, based on the widespread distribution of the H5N1 virus in poultry and the continued exposure of humans, according to the United Nations health agency’s first analysis of epidemiological data on all cases reported to it from December 2003 to April 2006.

UN-backed bird flu meeting in Indonesia aims to avert outbreaks among humans

21 June 2006
Aiming to avert new outbreaks of the deadly bird flu virus, experts gathered in Indonesia today – a main locus of the disease – at a United Nations-backed conference which seeks to develop strategies for preventing its spread to humans.