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Presser confirming H5N1 in second African country
1. Exterior sign OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health
2. Exterior of World Organisation for Animal Health
3. Wide shot of panel of experts at bird flu conference
4. Cutaway of delegates
5. Cutaway of Bernard Vallat, Director...
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Regional summit on SARS
1. Various of delegates standing in reception hall
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of WHO:
"We are working very well with China and other countries. And we see that in China as well as other places the...
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+4:3 Liberians react to the US sending 3,000 troops to West Africa to help provide aid in the Ebola crisis
There were mixed reactions in the Liberian capital Monrovia following US President Barack Obama's decision to send 3,000 US military personnel to West Africa amid fears the outbreak is growing exponentially in the region.
"We don't need...
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Orphange that cares for children with Aids, funeral for victims
Near Johannesburg - 30 November 2002
1. Exterior of Cotlands orphanage
2. Various close-ups of orphanage signs
3. Care workers with orphans with HIV inside Cotlands orphanage
4. Various of child painting
5. Various of other orphans
6....
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More suspected poultry deaths, govt confirm H5N1 virus killed 170 fowl
1. Various of area cordoned off by police
2. Various of men in protective clothing disinfecting area
3. Close-up of man's boots and shovels
4. Various of man in protective clothing putting grit in blue bag
5. Mid of poster giving advice...
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CHECHNYA: CIVILIANS RACE TO BURY THE DEAD
Goitskoye and Achkoi-Martan, Chechnya, April 5, 2000
Goitskoye, Chechnya
1. Pan villagers carry body in plastic bag
2. Villagers grieving over corpses
3. Pull out from hand to dead body
4. Close up of women cover faces against stench of...
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HEALTH BOARD LIKES MAYOR'S BIG DRINK BAN PROPOSAL
New York City's Board of Health signalled strong support on Tuesday for the mayor's plan to fight obesity by banning the sale of large, sugary beverages at local restaurants.
"The sugary drinks are the item that is most closely...
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Cabinet reshuffle Includes outgoing health minister, plus chief ministers in ceremony
Pretoria
1. Wide interior Union Buildings where swearing-in ceremony of President Kgalema Motlanthe's new cabinet is taking place
2. South African President Kgalema Motlanthe (right) and South African Deputy Minister Baleka Mbete...
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Making the suits which protect doctors and nurses on the Ebola front line
The bright yellow and orange hazard suits worn by health workers in West Africa have flashed on television screens around the world, graphic symbols of the dangers faced by men and women fighting the Ebola epidemic.
The protection is...
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Swine flu enters popular culture with dark humour
1. Wide city streets
2. Close up of Mexican flag
3. Various of statue with mask
4. Pan and close boy using painted mask
5. Mid of boy using painted mask
6. Pan of boy using mask saying: VIP (Virus Influenza Porcina: swine flu)
7. Close...
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WHO rejects Taiwan bid for observer status, reax
Geneva, Switzerland - May 17, 2004
1. Taiwanese delegation arriving
2. Wide shot of interior of World Health Assembly
3. Chinese delegation sitting in meeting
4. Close up member of Chinese delegation
5. Wide shot, pan of meeting
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AP Focus ahead of World Aids Day on S.Africa with world's highest HIV rate
Lilongwe, Malawi - 17 November 2006
1. Wide, Lilongwe
2. Building with sign "Children's Clinical Centre"
3. Various, close ups, children in clinic
4. Wide, clinic interior
5. Close up, mother looking at child with HIV (Human...
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P Diddy and Alicia Keys perform for AIDS awareness
1. Vs Press conference
2. SOT Alicia Keys - "For me personally I feel like the biggest thing is to respect yourself. You have to respect yourself because if you evoke that respect for yourself then others have no choice but to respect...
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MOFA on bird cull in Mongolia after suspected bird flu outbreak
1. Chinese Foreign ministry spokesperson Kong Quan walks into the room
2. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Foreign ministry spokesperson Kong Quan
(In response to a question about bird flu in Inner-Mongolia.)
"After receiving a report of the...
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An emergency room doctor who was the first Ebola patient in the nation's biggest city has been released from a New York City hospital and thanked the medical workers who treated him. He also called attention to the epidemic in West Africa. (Nov. 11)
An emergency room doctor who was the first Ebola patient in the nation's biggest city has been released from a New York City hospital and thanked the medical workers who treated him.
Dr. Craig Spencer was released from Bellevue Hospital...
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WRAP International conference on efforts to prevent bird flu
1. Wide interior of Avian Influenza Pledge Conference opening meeting
2. Various of Dr. David Nabarro, Senior Coordinator, United Nations System for Avian and Human Influenza at podium
3. Cutaway of audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr....
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WHO says bird flu drug deal highlights need to step up vaccine research
1. Wide of meeting between World Health Organisation (WHO) and Indonesia's government health officials
2. Indonesian officials, including Siti Fadilah Supari, Indonesian health minister, in centre
3. Mid shot WHO officials
4. Pan of...
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CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden, told a gathering at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meeting that the world must take action to make sure that Ebola does not become "the world's next AIDS". (Oct. 10)
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CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden, told a gathering at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meeting on Thursday that the world must take action to make sure that Ebola does not...
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Couple gets married in masks, epidemiologist comments
1. Various of quiet Mexico City streets
2. Set up of Health Ministry epidemiologist Pablo Kuri
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pablo Kuri, Health Ministry Epidemiologist:
"It's possible that today they could say, 'on April 30 there were ten...
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TURKEY: EARTHQUAKE DISASTER: HEALTH CRISIS
Turkish/Nat
As the death toll rises in Turkey, health experts are warning of the spread of disease among survivors.
In the town of Yalova, public services - such as rubbish collection and the sanitation of public toilets - have all but...
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Conference assesses Asia's readiness for potential pandemic
1. Various of World Health Organisation officials at meeting
2. Sign reading "Japan-WHO Joint Meeting on Early Response to Potential Influenza Pandemic in Asia"
3. Cutaway of journalists
4. Delegates at meeting
5. SOUNDBITE: (English)...
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UGANDA: EBOLA VIRUS OUTBREAK WRAP
English/Nat
On Monday morning, Okot Achala, buried his wife, a victim of the latest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.
Christine Ajaw is one of 35 people who've died so far in northern Uganda .
Local custom means there's no collective...
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US Health Secy warns of future human flu pandemic
1. US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Michael O. Leavitt, entering the press conference
2. Cutaway cameramen
3. Wide of Leavitt sitting down at the panel, talking to Suchai Charoenratanakul, Thai Public Health Minister
4....
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Cholera outbreak kills at least 150
1. Wide of people walking through entrance to St. Nicholas hospital
2. Close of signs reading (Creole): "Only one person may enter with sick patient"
3. Wide of people carrying sick person in bed
4. Mid of people carrying sick person on...