About 60 experts meeting at the Geneva-based World Health Organization have agreed on a strategy to try to prevent and contain a global influenza outbreak that they say could kill millions of people.
The experts say it is not a question of if, but when the next influenza outbreak will strike. The head of WHO's Global Influenza Program, Klaus Stohr, says widespread outbreaks of disease - or pandemics - are natural recurring phenomena. "Knowing that the next pandemic will come, we feel that we should be prepared and there are certainly several levels of preparedness which countries can take, which global organizations like WHO can take, which industry can take."
Source: VOA News
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