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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We have to step up improvement of the primitive farming practice in China's rural regions, especially the backyard feeding of chickens and ducks in many rural households.
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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,
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The boy that I met, he did not know anything about this. For him, chickens are friends, so he touched (them).
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All attempts to bring it under control in Southeast Asia have failed.
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This is the first time that we have third-generation infection in terms of laboratory-acquired infection.
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These excellent results mark a major achievement by a country that used to have a high incidence of neonatal tetanus. All countries in the WHO Western Pacific Region have made progress towards neonatal tetanus elimination. Viet Nam has shown that government commitment, hard work and partnerships lead to results. We are hopeful that several other countries in the region will soon follow Viet Nam's example.