BREAKING NEWS :
BIRDS FLU VIRUS SPREADING QUICKLY ALLL OVER ASIA..THESE ARE SOME RESPONSES.......
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome and the Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in Paris joined WHO in the call for a global response.
Unlike SARS, Lee said, diagnostic tests for bird flu already exist, as do effective, although costly, antivirals for humans.
"This is a serious global threat to human health," he said. "We must begin this hard, costly work now."
The victims have all been people who handled infected birds. There has been no evidence of human-to-human transmission. The disease cannot be passed by eating cooked birds, experts say.
Nations hit by bird flu
?S. Korea
?Japan
?Thailand
?Vietnam
?Cambodia
?Indonesia
?Pakistan
?Laos
?Taiwan (different strain)