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Pandemic influenza preparedness in the Asia?Pacific region -
R Coker, S Mounier-Jack - The Lancet, 2006 - Elsevier
... March 13, 2006). 23 A Jack, UN calls for more funds to tackle bird flu,
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[PDF] Funding the global control of bird flu -
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[CITATION] UN Calls for More Funds to Tackle Bird Flu
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Animal influenza virus surveillance -
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[PDF] Anatomy of a pandemic: emergency departments woefully unprepared for bird flu outbreak -
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From the Great Barrier Reef to a ?cure? for the flu -
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... at the Australian National University, when asked for funds for an expedition to
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Governments in a dilemma over bird flu -
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AVIAN INFLUENZA: Combating the Bird Flu Menace, Down on the Farm -
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... The bird-flu lab was carved out of two tiny rooms in NAHC's 75-year-old main complex.
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[PDF] Sex workers to pay the price -
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[CITATION] States Scrape Up Bird Flu Drug Funds
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Donors pledge extra $406 mln in bird flu funds

Last Updated: 2007-12-06 12:06:22 -0400 (Reuters Health)

By Alistair Scrutton

NEW DELHI - Foreign donors have pledged $406 million in additional funds for efforts to combat bird flu, but another $800 million is still needed and countries still need to be better prepared for any pandemic, officials said on Thursday.

The funds were pledged on the final day of a three-day summit in New Delhi, India, of experts on avian influenza from across the world, aimed at coordinating strategies to combat the disease.

"Countries are much better prepared now than they were a year ago for a pandemic, however the preparedness is not as broad or deep as we would like it to be," David Nabarro, the United Nations influenza coordinator, told reporters.

"Although some countries have tested their preparedness in exercises ... there is still more testing to be done because when the pandemic does come it will be too late to prepare," he added.

Last year at a similar meeting around $475 million was pledged by donors, but experts played down the apparent shortfall in funding, saying they were confident further funds would be forthcoming.

"A number of countries that might have wished to pledge to this meeting were not in a position ... to organize their pledges on time," Nabarro said.

The United States, the largest donor in the fight against bird flu, raised its pledge to $629 million, an additional $195 million in funding.

For now, humans usually contract the virus only after close contact with infected birds, with the virus killing nearly two-thirds of the people it infects.

But experts worry it may mutate into a form easily transmitted from person to person, leading to a pandemic.

Around a fifth of humanity could fall ill should there be another flu pandemic, according to estimates cited by the World Health Organization, with catastrophic effects on the global economy.

There have been roughly three flu pandemics each century since the 16th century, the WHO says.

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