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Asia-Pacific nations to hold two-day avian flu workshop
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060813/wl_asia_afp/healthfluapecsingapore
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060813/wl_asia_afp/healthfluapecsingapore
SINGAPORE (AFP) - More than 50 health and government officials from the Asia-Pacific will gather in Singapore to discuss ways to strengthen the region's response to any bird flu pandemic, a regional grouping said.
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"The exercise achieved its purpose of highlighting the need for improved communications to handle these sorts of emergencies," Helena Studdert of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in the statement.
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"The next step is for the Singapore workshop to discuss the report, decide how to move forward and make a series of recommendations to ministers," she said.
The H5N1 bird flu virus has killed 138 people since late 2003, mostly in Asia. Health experts fear it could mutate into a form that is transmitted more easily between humans, marking the first stage of a global flu pandemic that could kill millions.
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"The exercise achieved its purpose of highlighting the need for improved communications to handle these sorts of emergencies," Helena Studdert of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in the statement.
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"The next step is for the Singapore workshop to discuss the report, decide how to move forward and make a series of recommendations to ministers," she said.
The H5N1 bird flu virus has killed 138 people since late 2003, mostly in Asia. Health experts fear it could mutate into a form that is transmitted more easily between humans, marking the first stage of a global flu pandemic that could kill millions.
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