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WORLD BANK GIVES LAOS $2 MILLION FOR BIRD FLU
August 14, 2006 (Reuters)
Washington -- The World Bank said on Monday it had granted $2 million to Laos to help the country prepare for outbreaks of bird flu, which has spread through birds in Asia, Europe and Africa.
The grant funding is the first to be approved from the multidonor Avian and Human Influenza Facility managed by the World Bank.
Photo: A farmer tends to a flock of ducks on a rice field
in Nakhon Sawan province, 270 km (167 miles) north of
Bangkok August 17, 2006. New strains of the H5N1 virus
caused some of the fresh outbreaks of bird flu in Thailand
and Laos and they appear to have spread from southern
China, the Food and Agriculture Organization said on Thursday.
The bank said in a statement the grant was in addition to $4 million from a separate World Bank-supported program, which helps countries strengthen their capacity to better detect and deal with bird flu.
The southeast Asian nation reported on May 17 that a H5N1 bird flu strain was found on a farm south of the capital Vientiane, the first case since an outbreak among poultry was detected in the country in early 2004.
Source: www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N14175674.htm
August 14, 2006 (Reuters)
Washington -- The World Bank said on Monday it had granted $2 million to Laos to help the country prepare for outbreaks of bird flu, which has spread through birds in Asia, Europe and Africa.
The grant funding is the first to be approved from the multidonor Avian and Human Influenza Facility managed by the World Bank.
Photo: A farmer tends to a flock of ducks on a rice field
in Nakhon Sawan province, 270 km (167 miles) north of
Bangkok August 17, 2006. New strains of the H5N1 virus
caused some of the fresh outbreaks of bird flu in Thailand
and Laos and they appear to have spread from southern
China, the Food and Agriculture Organization said on Thursday.
The bank said in a statement the grant was in addition to $4 million from a separate World Bank-supported program, which helps countries strengthen their capacity to better detect and deal with bird flu.
The southeast Asian nation reported on May 17 that a H5N1 bird flu strain was found on a farm south of the capital Vientiane, the first case since an outbreak among poultry was detected in the country in early 2004.
Source: www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N14175674.htm
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