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       Sunday, September 17, 2006

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Bird flu Pandemic coming, warns UN

A global pandemic is not a distant reality anymore, if the warnings unleashed by the UN and the World Bank are taken at their face value.

According to David Nabarro, Senior United Nations System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza, a human influenza pandemic is a possibility in the wake of recent outbreak of bird flu.

The world will be losing a whopping US$2 trillion, or 4.8 percent of the world's gross domestic product and 70 million people in the eventuality of such a pandemic.

The world has just witnessed a trailer of what is in store in the form of a full blown avian-influenza pandemic. The UN needs to play a more decisive role in arresting the spread of a deadly disease like bird flu.



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