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ASEAN plans assessment of pandemic preparation

Posted on July 23, 2008

Via Vietnam News Agency: Vietnam News Agency (VNA) href= http://www.vnanet.vn/Home/EN/tabid/119/itemid/259911/Default.aspx ASEAN to boost bird flu pandemic control. Excerpt:Bird flu chiefs from across Southeast Asia have agreed to assess the ability of their governments to respond to a deadly human pandemic of the H5N1 virus, reported foreign media on July 23. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed that its member countries must be better organised to tackle a human-to-human outbreak of H5N1, Bayu Krisnamurthi, the head of Indonesia s National Committee for bird flu...

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