WHO's Chan: Bird-flu still a threat despite strong countermeasures
Emergency Management Alert, November 6, 2007
World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Margaret Chan said this week that the risk of an avian influenza pandemic should not be discounted. "The risk...is still with us," she warned audiences in Beijing who were attending two international conferences focusing on health research and health development in rural areas.
Dr. Chan lauded health officials in some Asian nations, like Viet Nam, for acting quickly to institute programs showing improvement in fighting disease, but advised health officials, "[D]on't let your guards off."
China received special praise for its recent improvement in disease prevention and response measures. She said China's national control center for infectious diseases was "one of the best" she had seen since taking up her WHO post 10 months ago.
Not so prominently mentioned was Indonesia, where this week a woman died of bird flu--spiking the country's death toll from the disease to 90.
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