'Rogue' States, Africa Need Bird Flu Help - Official
WASHINGTON - US-led efforts to fight bird flu - so far focused on Southeast Asia - need to be extended to North Korea and other pariah regimes as well as to vulnerable Africa, US officials said on Friday.
Turkey and Iraq last month became the latest countries outside Asia to report human cases of the H5N1 strain of avian flu. While it mostly affects birds, bird flu has infected 161 people and killed 86 of them since 2003, according to the World Health Organization.
Nancy Powell, the State Department senior coordinator for avian and pandemic influenza, said Washington would work through the UN system to reach Myanmar, North Korea, Iran and other countries shunned by the United States and some of its allies as "rogue" regimes.
"It is an issue and ... the birds don't kn
WASHINGTON - US-led efforts to fight bird flu - so far focused on Southeast Asia - need to be extended to North Korea and other pariah regimes as well as to vulnerable Africa, US officials said on Friday.
Turkey and Iraq last month became the latest countries outside Asia to report human cases of the H5N1 strain of avian flu. While it mostly affects birds, bird flu has infected 161 people and killed 86 of them since 2003, according to the World Health Organization.
Nancy Powell, the State Department senior coordinator for avian and pandemic influenza, said Washington would work through the UN system to reach Myanmar, North Korea, Iran and other countries shunned by the United States and some of its allies as "rogue" regimes.
"It is an issue and ... the birds don't kn
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