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WHO officials comment on readiness to tackle ebola, vaccine development
The World Health Organisation said on Friday that East Asia, with its trade and transport hubs and armies of migrant workers, remains at risk of the entry of Ebola but is beefing up its defences against the virus.
WHO's regional director...
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New WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan begins work
1. Wide shot of World Health Organisation headquarters
2. Dr Margaret Chan shaking hands with official
3. Chan walking inside building
4. Various shots of roundtable meeting
5. Chan approaching podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Margaret...
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France and Belgium screening, co-discoverer of virus on crisis
French Health Minister Marisol Touraine visited the medical teams from Charles de Gaulle airport on Friday, a day before they are due to start checking the temperatures of passengers arriving on the daily flight from Guinea.
The controls...
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WHO comments on bird flu outbreak in Malaysia
1. Exterior World Health Organisation (WHO) regional office building
2. WHO sign
3. Mid shot of WHO spokesman Peter Cordingley
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Cordingley, WHO regional spokesman:
"We've been informed that two people have...
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HONG KONG: WHO TO DEVELOP VACCINE TO NEW BIRD FLU
English/Nat
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Saturday it was preparing to develop a vaccine against the deadly "bird flu" virus that has killed two people in Hong Kong.
But Dr Daniel Lavanchy, head of the WHO's Influenza...
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Officials express concern on threat of pandemic
Bangkok - 26 November 2004
1. Wide shot of delegates on stage for photo opportunity
2. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra
3. Philippines' Department of Health Regional Director Dr. Ethelyn Nieto, and Singapore's Minister of Health...
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WHO on latest cases of H5N1
1. Various of Ankara
2. Wide exterior of United Nations (UN) building
3. Close-up of sign reading: "UN House"
4. Security guard at entrance
5. Set up of Guenael Rodier, Senior adviser to the World health Organisation (WHO) in Ankara
6....
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Taiwanese delegation drums up support for entry to WHO
1. Wide pan of news conference
2. journalist taking photograph
3. Mid shot of delegates
4. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Shu-ming Wu, Presidential advisor
"Taiwan is a sovereign nation and its formal title is Republic of China. Therefore, it is...
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Country braces for more deaths amid WHO warnings
September 22, 2005
1. Exterior of Borobudur hotel
2. Wide shot of press conference
3. Various shots of journalists
4. SOUNDBITE : (Bahasa Indonesia) Siti Fadila Supari, Indonesian Health Minister:
"The one who has been positively...
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Vietnam confirms its 21st human case of bird flu
Hanoi - February 17, 2004
1. Exterior of World Health Organisation (WHO) building with people walking past
2. WHO sign
3. Maria Cheng, World Health Organisation spokesperson, at computer in office
4. WHO book on chickens
5. SOUNDBITE:...
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WHO experts tour northern Iraq to advise on bird flu prevention
Raniyah district, Suleimaniyah province, north of Baghdad
1. Sign reading ''Raniyah district''
2. WHO delegation, along with Iraqi Kurdish officials, walking getting into a the Mayor's office
3. Naima al-Qasir sitting with fellow...
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Envoy comments on failure to obtain observer status
1. Various exteriors of the Intercontinental Hotel
2. Various of media setting up for press conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hou Sheng Mou, Taiwan's Health Minister:
"We are very much disappointed. So immediately I wrote a letter of...
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Four dead and others infected with Ebola related disease.
1. Wide shot of hospital
2. Mid shot of entrance
3. Doctor walking outside entrance
4. Boy looking out of hospital window
5. Two men waiting on bench
6. Nurse typing
7. Nurses attend to feverish patient
8. Close up of drip
9. ...
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China reports two confirmed SARS cases, two suspected ones
1. Pullout exterior of Ditan Hospital''s plaque at entrance, pan to hospital
2. Ambulance arriving at hospital grounds
3. Ambulance''s rear door opens and stretcher holding man reportedly with fever removed from ambulance and wheeled...
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Children confirmed with H5N1 in hospital, families, WHO comment
Van, 15 January 2006
1. Bus driving down street
2. Family arriving at state hospital with children in their arms
3. Various people inside hospital waiting to be seen
4. Exterior of cafĂŠwhere man drinking coffee
5. Various father...
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Ministry of Health briefing on SARS crisis
1. Ministry of Health officials entering press briefing
2. Cutaway of journalists
3. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Zhang Wenkang, Health Minister:
"Thanks to the hard efforts of public health agencies both at national level and sub-national...
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WRAP WHO investigates SARS, cleaning operation
1. Exterior of restaurant where SARS suspect waitress works
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Breiman, WHO team leader:
"First of all we talked with the restaurant staff and we learned about how things worked in the restaurant and then we...
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WHO official says recent SARS cases not pandemic
1. Wide shot of news conference
2. Reporters
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Shigeru Omi, WHO Asia-Pacific Regional Director:
"This situation, as I said repeatedly, is not yet a serious public health threat. But, so this is one thing I would...
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News conference after WHO holds emergency meeting on Ebola outbreak
International health organisations continued discussions on Thursday on how to tackle West Africa's deadliest ever outbreak of Ebola.
At a meeting in the Ghanaian capital Accra, participating officials stressed the importance of all...
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WRAP WHO meets on SARS, plus protests
1. Wide shot of meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (English) SOUNDBITE (English) Gro Harlem Brundtland, WHO Director-General:
"I want us today to remember dr. Carlo Urbani who was based in our Vietnam office. Dr. Urbani was hit by SARS as he was...
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Zaire - Virus Victim Buried; Medical Aid Arrives
Virus victim buried; medical aid arrives
World Health Organisation (WHO) officials in Kikwit, Zaire said on Sunday (14/5) the Elboa virus which killed 64 people was the same one responsible for two epidemics there in the 1970s. WHO...
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WHO helps to reopen main civilian hospital
1. Boy on stretcher is wheeled through hospital courtyard
2. Various of injured in ward
3. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Injured man:
"My operation went well. I am pleased, my leg feels okay."
4. Boy on operating table
5. Surgeon with bandage
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People still eating pork despite disease deaths
1. Wide of pork market
2. Wide of pork laying on tables for sale at market
3. Close-up of pork ribs being chopped up
4. Butcher chopping pork ribs
5. Butcher handing a bag of ribs to a customer
6. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Mrs. Zhou,...
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WRAP WHO confirm not raising alert on swine flu pandemic ADDS more
1. Various exteriors of the World Health Organisation
2. Journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Keiji Fukuda, World Health Organisation's Assistant Director General for Health Security and Environment:
"At this time I want to repeat there is...