(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-10-26 09:29

World Health Organization Director-General Lee Jong-wook (R) speaks during the closing news conference of the Global Pandemic Influenza Readiness conference while Canadian Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh looks on in Ottawa October 25, 2005. People should not panic about a possible influenza pandemic despite the steady spread of a deadly strain of avian flu among humans, leading health officials and politicians said on Tuesday. More than 60 people in Southeast Asia have died of bird flu and the avian outbreak has made its way to Europe. Experts say the world is overdue for a flu pandemic and predict the most likely cause will be an animal strain which mutates. [Reuters]


British Minister of State for Health Rosie Winterton takes part in the closing news conference of the Global Pandemic Influenza Readiness conference in Ottawa October 25, 2005. People should not panic about a possible influenza pandemic despite the steady spread of a deadly strain of avian flu among humans, leading health officials and politicians said on Tuesday. More than 60 people in Southeast Asia have died of bird flu and the avian outbreak has made its way to Europe. Experts say the world is overdue for a flu pandemic and predict the most likely cause will be an animal strain which mutates. [Reuters]