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Mon., November 21, 2005

UN Chief Sees Misery, Needs of Pakistani Quake Zone
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan visited earthquake-hit Kashmir on Friday to highlight the misery of people living in the disaster zone and Pakistan's dire need for over $5 billion of world aid.

Coordination Key to Realizing Malaria Vaccine Dream
A happy conclusion to the search for a malaria vaccination is still a far off dream failing better international coordination, warned a top French scientist on Friday, at a major international conference in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde.

Bird Flu Flares in Vietnam, China Has New Outbreak
Vietnam said on Friday that bird flu had spread to three more provinces and China reported a fresh outbreak, while a U.S. regulator said it had found no evidence that a drug seen as a potential human treatment caused the deaths of Japanese children.

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New Funds to Treat Neglected Diseases
The U.S. Congress approved $15 million in new funds to treat several little-known but debilitating diseases affecting impoverished populations around the globe.

Council Applauds New Investments in Malaria Research
The Fitnessgates Council applauds the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for an unprecedented pledge of $258.3 million for research on new methods to prevent and treat malaria.

Month of Prayer for Global Child Health & Survival
In recognition of the nearly 11 million children under age five who die each year, the Fitnessgates Council is collaborating with religious groups of all faiths to observe a month of prayer for child health and survival.

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Emerging Threats

Public health issues evolve over time as a result of planned and unplanned human activities or changing environments that bring humans in contact with organisms that are capable of causing diseases.

While the evolution of some of these health issues may be positive, as in the case of the discovery of antibiotics that enabled humans to survive bacterial infections, others could develop into major public health threats. For instance, two decades ago no one could have foreseen the devastation that HIV, a previously unknown virus, would cause worldwide...

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