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Medbroadcast: 02-24-2005
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) - The international community needs to spend at least $100 million US to combat bird flu - five times more than the "glaringly insufficient" amount provided last year, UN officials said Thursday
The call for funding came after international health
VANCOUVER (CP) - One of British Columbia's biggest health unions now has a former high-profile national labour leader as its new secretary-business manager.
BEIJING (AP) - Former U.S. president Bill Clinton signed an agreement with China on Wednesday to provide a year's supply of AIDS drugs to 200 children to help Beijing battle the disease.
TORONTO (CP) - Separation surgery on conjoined twins from Zimbabwe has been set for March after the children caught a respiratory infection, delaying the previously scheduled February surgery, Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children said Wednesday.
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - A Florida judge extended a stay Wednesday keeping brain-damaged Terri Schiavo's feeding tube in place, saying he needs time to decide whether her husband, who wants to let her die, is fit to be her guardian.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid dire warnings of an Asian pandemic, the U.S. government is preparing to test an experimental avian flu vaccine and is increasing disease surveillance in hopes of reducing the toll from any eventual American outbreak.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) - The world is on the verge of a deadly pandemic stemming from avian flu and governments need to start drafting emergency plans for the disease, a top international health official warned Wednesday.
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TORONTO (CP) - The federal government will provide funding in Wednesday's budget to develop trial batches of a vaccine against the avian flu virus feared by many to be poised to spark a deadly influenza pandemic, The Canadian Press has learned.
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