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Doctor Fukuda, an acting assistant director-general , said the W. H. O. has been working with the member states to prepare for a pandemic.

Dr. Fukuda said a W. H. O. panel of experts had concluded that "the hypothesis does not really stand up to scrutiny. "

W. H. O. officials say tests on two people who died in Turkey found a small genetic change in the virus.

Health organizations like the W. H. O. and Unicef recommend that each person be given about five gallons of clean water a day.

The W. H. O. chief said climate change will also hit the poor the hardest but, to a greater or lesser extent, will affect all countries.

W. H. O. officials say the corrections were mostly the result of better methods of collecting information.

The W. H. O. says studies suggest that about half of these problems may be preventable.

The W. H. O. says most poor countries spend less than one percent of their health budgets on mental health.

He praised efforts by the W. H. O. to establish common practices for the production, regulation and control of antivenom.

The W. H. O. is calling on those governments to ban tobacco advertising to the fullest extent possible and to do more to protect women.

For now, the W. H. O. says the only way to prevent the spread of dengue fever is to fight the mosquitoes that carry it.

That drug is artemisinin. W. H. O. officials say people should take it only in combination with other malaria drugs.

In the mid-1990s, as an adviser to W. H. O. , he helped write the organization's tuberculosis treatment guidelines.

W. H. O. officials made the call after two studies found that results from a commonly used test are undependable and misleading.

Several years ago, the W. H. O. blamed climate change for two percent of diarrhea cases worldwide in the year two thousand.

Colin Mathers was the lead author of the study. He is the W. H. O. 's coordinator for epidemiology and burden of disease.

The W. H. O. says different areas of the world will experience different problems from climate change.

The W. H. O. Called the decision an important step toward community acceptance of the measures needed to control the Marburg outbreak.

The W . H. O. says in a major new report that raising taxes is the single most effective way to reduce tobacco use.

Now, a partnership supported by the W. H. O. , called the Health Metrics Network, will try to improve the situation.

The W. H. O. notes that health resources in those countries are limited, and people there are weakened by poor health and diet.

This month, the W. H. O. joined with other groups to announce a new effort against malaria.

For the past five years, UNICEF and the W. H. O. have recommended zinc supplements to treat diarrhea.

The W. H. O. says about one and one-half thousands millon dollars will be needed over three years to prepare for append amic a pandemic .

The W. H. O. says cardiovascular disease is the world's leading cause of death.

Doctor Etienne Krug at the W. H. O. says that every year, 830, 000 children die from accidental injuries.

The W. H. O. study was announced in New York City.

The W. H. O. is advising people to wash their hands often with soap and water.

This year, the W. H. O. reports more than 1, 200 cases of polio globally, more than half of these are in Nigeria.

The W. H. O. says there is already evidence of health problems related to climate change.

Almost 6, 500 confirmed cases of the new H1N1 flu have been reported from 33 countries, and 65 people have died, the W. H. O. said.

The W. H. O. estimates that chronic diseases will cost China alone more than five hundred thousand million dollars in the next ten years.

For example, a W. H. O. statement urged nations not to close their borders or limit trade and travel.

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