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Burning chicken carcasses

Culling wild birds ineffective against flu: UN agency

29 November 2005
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today warned against culling wild birds in cities in countries affected by bird flu, saying this could distract attention from the campaign to contain the disease among poultry in the battle against the virus that could spark a potentially lethal human pandemic.

UN health agency mounts joint bird flu mission in China

25 November 2005
Following a new confirmed human case of bird flu in China’s south-eastern Anhui province, the United Nations health agency is joining a mission by the Chinese Health Ministry to investigate exposure to the virus, which in a worst case scenario could mutate into a human pandemic that could kill tens of millions of people.

UN-led alliance to develop bird flu early-warning system

20 November 2005
An alliance of organizations led by the United Nations will develop an avian flu early-warning system able to alert countries and communities to the arrival of potentially infected wild birds, the world body's environment agency announced today in Nairobi, Kenya.
Conference on avian influenza in Geneva

Bird flu: UN-sponsored conference draws up six-point action plan

9 November 2005
Winding up a three-day United Nations-sponsored conference aimed at pre-empting a deadly human pandemic of bird flu, more than 600 delegates from over 100 countries today outlined a six-point global action plan, ranging from curbing the virus in birds to enhanced detection to funding for countries at risk.
Conference on avian influenza in Geneva

UN-sponsored conference on bird flu opens with call for global action

7 November 2005
More than 300 animal and human health experts from around the world opened a three-day conference on bird flu at the United Nations health agency headquarters in Geneva today with a call for global action ranging from boosting national preventive capacities to vaccine production to fight an inevitable human pandemic.
Kofi Annan

UN officials detail priorities for combating potentially deadly bird flu pandemic

3 November 2005
Confronting the possibility of a potentially devastating human bird flu pandemic, the United Nations system – from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to the UN health and agricultural agencies – today laid out a blueprint for immediate preventive and mitigating action.