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Russia recommends adopting G8 plan against Bird Flu
This isn't WHO. But, it is Russia commenting on the G8 working together to stop Bird Flu. (Good Luck. It's to late imo)
Russia recommends adopting G8 plan against bird flu
11.02.2006, 17.20
MOSCOW, February 11 (Itar-Tass) - Russia recommends adopting a G8 plan of action on curbing bird flu and averting a pandemic of flu among humans, President Vladimir Putin said Saturday as he received in the Kremlin the G8 finance ministers, who had a conference in Moscow.
?Russia also proposes to map out a set of measures for preventing epidemics in the aftermath of natural calamities,? he said.
?G8 cannot stay aside from the problem of infectious diseases that cause at least one death in three across the world,? Putin said.
?We must give the bulk of our attention to consolidating a global network of information and analysis monitoring as regards the spread of those diseases,? he went on saying.
?A system like that must be able to react rapidly to new threats in the form of infections and thus make it possible to reduce to the minimum the human and economic losses arising from epidemics,? Putin said.
He praised results of the January conference on bird flu in Beijing, at the end of which the donor countries pledged to allocate 1.9 billion U.S. dollars for financing the efforts to arrest the spread of that disease.
Putin also hopes that the G8 finance ministers? proposal to do a study of financial and economic aftermath of a possible pandemic of flu must produce a series of steps that will slash the potential global economic losses to the minimum.
He promised consider implementation of all earlier decisions during Russia?s term of rotating presidency in the G8. Their list includes elimination of polio and reduction of HIV and tuberculosis, among other things.
Russia recommends adopting G8 plan against bird flu
11.02.2006, 17.20
MOSCOW, February 11 (Itar-Tass) - Russia recommends adopting a G8 plan of action on curbing bird flu and averting a pandemic of flu among humans, President Vladimir Putin said Saturday as he received in the Kremlin the G8 finance ministers, who had a conference in Moscow.
?Russia also proposes to map out a set of measures for preventing epidemics in the aftermath of natural calamities,? he said.
?G8 cannot stay aside from the problem of infectious diseases that cause at least one death in three across the world,? Putin said.
?We must give the bulk of our attention to consolidating a global network of information and analysis monitoring as regards the spread of those diseases,? he went on saying.
?A system like that must be able to react rapidly to new threats in the form of infections and thus make it possible to reduce to the minimum the human and economic losses arising from epidemics,? Putin said.
He praised results of the January conference on bird flu in Beijing, at the end of which the donor countries pledged to allocate 1.9 billion U.S. dollars for financing the efforts to arrest the spread of that disease.
Putin also hopes that the G8 finance ministers? proposal to do a study of financial and economic aftermath of a possible pandemic of flu must produce a series of steps that will slash the potential global economic losses to the minimum.
He promised consider implementation of all earlier decisions during Russia?s term of rotating presidency in the G8. Their list includes elimination of polio and reduction of HIV and tuberculosis, among other things.