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Simon Schneller

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 12 2006 (IPS) – The avian flu virus, which has spread from Asia to Turkey, may still have some nasty surprises in store , a senior official of the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned Thursday.
I do not believe an influenza pandemic will inevitably spring from the crisis the world is facing at the moment, explained Shigeru Omi, WHO s regional director for the Western Pacific region.

Yes, the situation is very serious and getting worse. But it is still within our power to change the course of this epidemic, he told a conference in Japan on Thursday.

About 1.5 billion dollars is expected to be mobilised for the worldwide battle against bird flu at an International Pledging Conference set for Jan. 17-18 in Beijing, U.N. Sys…

Lisa Söderlindh

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 2006 (IPS) – Unable to compete with younger survivors for scarce resources and largely excluded from international aid efforts, thousands of elderly people were neglected in the initial aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
The elderly are the ones, along with the smallest children, who were physically unable to escape the enormous waves. They were totally helpless, Susanne Loos-Jayawickreme, vice chair of the Sri Lankan Jayawickreme Foundation, said at a U.N. roundtable called to assess the needs of older survivors, some of whom are still living in flimsy temporary shelters.

In Sri Lanka, one of the most severely affected countries, Loos said the tsunami left the elderly both homeless and disconnected from community life…

Marwaan Macan-Markar

BANGKOK, Mar 23 2006 (IPS) – From being a tormentor of people living in tropical, humid cities across Asia, the lethal dengue-carrying mosquito is spreading its wings into rural areas. That, warns public health experts, could result in dengue fever adding to the list of diseases sapping poor village communities.
Concern is fuelled by the geographic shift of the dengue mosquito, which, unlike the malaria mosquito, has always been known for breeding in cities, and the inability of small rural health facilities to handle a surge in dengue cases.

Rural health systems are not equipped to treat dengue patients and lack the basic equipment to diagnose, Prof. Duane Gubler, director of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Tropical Medicines and Infectious Disea…

Ahmad Ihsan Sarwaryar, Nadeem Kohistani and Zubair Babakarkhel – Pajhwok Afghan News*

KABUL, Apr 24 2006 (IPS) – Agitated poppy farmers in western Herat province say they will not destroy their crops unless the Afghan government provides them with alternative sources of income.
I will not stop growing poppy despite the ban by the government because I ve no other source of livelihood, asserted Ghulam Sakhi, 45, from the Nahr-i-Farhad area of Rabat Sangi district. They (the government) should first kill me and 12 members of my family before they destroy my farms, he added.

The protesting farmer was addressing the provincial governor, Said Hussain Anwari and the police chief, who were touring the area, inspecting a poppy eradication campaign that was underway.

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