Global influenza meeting sets key action steps, agrees on urgent need for financing.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-10 November 2005-WORLD BANK: Global influenza meeting sets key action steps, agrees on urgent need for financing(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09112005 GENEVA - A global meeting has identified key components of a global action plan to control avian influenza in animals and simultaneously limit the threat of a human influenza pandemic.

More than 600 delegates from over 100 countries agreed that there is an urgent need for financial and other resources for countries which have already been affected by avian influenza, as well as for those which are most at risk, and to identify and respond to a human pandemic the moment it emerges. In his conclusions to this historic meeting, Dr LEE Jong-wook, Director-General of the World Health...