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WHO asks for planning to fight new diseases

Posted on September 25, 2008

Via the New Zealand news source Scoop.co.nz: Scoop: WHO Urges Improved Ability To Combat New Diseases href= http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0809/S00594.htm WHO Urges Improved Ability To Combat New Diseases.The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged countries to accelerate implementation of the Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases to achieve the basic capacities required to deal with new infections.While some countries have started strengthening their ability to respond to disease, others need to work harder to achieve the strategy's core capacity development goal by 2010, the worl...

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