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Wild birds likely to spread potentially deadly bird flu far and wide - UN agency

31 August 2005
The deadly strain of bird flu that has hit several countries in Asia is likely to be carried over long distances along the flyways of wild water birds to the Middle East, Europe, South Asia and Africa, with the potential to trigger a global human pandemic, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today.

To prevent flu pandemic, UN health agency calls for global medical stockpile

24 August 2005
Girding up to fight a potential flu pandemic that could kill tens of millions of people worldwide, the United Nations health agency today appealed to wealthy countries to help it build up a stockpile of antiviral medicine that it could rush to regions in need, especially to poorer nations, in view of current bird flu outbreaks.

As bird flu spreads, UN health agency urges heightened vigilance

18 August 2005
The United Nations health agency today voiced concern over the expanding geographical range of bird flu, which officials fear could in a worst-case scenario mutate into a deadly human pandemic, and it called for heightened surveillance and the rapid introduction of containment measures.

UN health agency monitors human deaths from China's 'pig flu' outbreak

3 August 2005
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today said it was following closely reports from China that at least 38 people have died and more than 200 others have been made ill by a swine-borne disease in Sichuan province.