Asia-Pacific meet to discuss bird flu response
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia will host a regional meeting at the end of October to discuss an Asia-Pacific response to bird flu, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Wednesday.
The meeting will be held in the northern Australian city of Brisbane on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 and will be attended by pandemic and disaster management coordinators from the 21 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member countries.
"The objective of the meeting is to ensure a swift and co-ordinated regional response to contain any outbreak of avian influenza," Downer said in a statement.
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An Indonesian workers seen putting medicine into the eyes of chicks on a farm to protect thousands of healthy chickens from bird flu virus in Banten town of West Java province, in this September 22, 2005 file photo. (REUTERS/Albatani Firman Saputra) |
The H5N1 bird flu strain has killed more than 60 people in four Asian nations since late 2003 and has been found in birds in Russia and Europe.
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