Shigeru Omi
Shigeru Omi
Shigeru Omiis the current Regional Director of the Western Pacific Regional Office for the World Health Organization. He was born in Tokyo in 1949 and currently lives in Manila...
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The situation is worsening with each passing month and the threat of an influenza pandemic is continuing to grow.
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I believe the momentum that is now building up will give us a chance to change the course of history and head off a pandemic caused by the H5N1 virus.
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We still believe it is possible to stop or delay a pandemic by implementing rapid containment measures very quickly.
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We must try to ensure that we will be ready to respond instantly with all the weapons at our disposal should the early signs of an influenza pandemic appear. If we fail, the consequences for societies, economies and global public health could be immeasurable.
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While we still have a window of opportunity, we must do everything we can to avert an influenza pandemic as we simultaneously prepare for a worse-case scenario,
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I'm quite optimistic on how much support will be given.
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I hope that we'll get the samples soon.
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TB-HIV co-infection threatens to reverse the steady progress toward achieving this goal.
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Even if you control avian flu, the next one is coming,
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We cannot kill all the chickens and ducks to prevent bird flu from spreading among them and to humans; therefore, we have to make sure the chickens, ducks and humans do not mingle together.
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We know that implementing the convention will not be easy, as smoking is an ingrained habit in China, but the government has made clear its commitment to take action.
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This situation is not yet a serious public health threat, but if you compare this one with the two laboratory-acquired cases in Taiwan and Singapore, and also if you compare this one with the four SARS cases (in Guangdong, China) which happened during the first part of this year ... the situation needs more attention,
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They acknowledged the need to strengthen the capacity particularly at the grass roots level.
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This is perhaps the clearest indication yet that the world is increasingly committed to addressing the global tobacco epidemic,