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Avian Influenza
Italy's health officials call meeting to discuss bird flu
February 20th, 2005
Italy's health minister led a meeting January 26, 2005, aimed at assessing the risk of bird flu for humans, and convened a gathering of experts on flu pandemics. The Health Ministry said that the February 3 meeting was called to "make an analysis of the risk on the base of current new information and pinpoint possible scenarios." "There is a real danger for public health which doesn't allow for delays" in strategy, the ministry said in a statement. Vietnam has warned that bird flu is spreading even faster this year than in last year's disastrous Asian outbreak. There is concern that the world is ill-prepared...
Source: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA (2005-02-20)
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