Doctor Fukuda, an acting assistant director-general, said the W.H.O.has been working with the member states to prepare for a pandemic.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The World Health Organization this week declared the first pandemic, or worldwide spread, of influenza in forty-one years.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

"Today we can say with confidence and conviction that we have broken the trajectory of the AIDS pandemic."

VOA: special.2010.12.01

The W.H.O.has an influenza warning system in which phase six means that a pandemic is taking place.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The World Health Organization will not declare an influenza pandemic unless a virus becomes widespread in at least two areas of the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

He says it will take more than a pandemic to keep him from making his trip.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

This declaration is meant to warn that the time to plan for a pandemic is short.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

W.H.O.Director-General Margaret Chan declared the sickness a pandemic a disease that has spread to many nations.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

The last flu pandemic was in nineteen sixty-eight, caused by the so-called Hong Kong flu.

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But Doctor Fukuda said the public should understand what a pandemic means.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Phase six would mean a global pandemic.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

WHO chief Chan urges people not to become complacent because of the relatively mild nature of the H1N1 pandemic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

"What we have found is that we are not seeing the factors that were associated with the 1918 pandemic.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

Donaldson says Britain has been planning for a pandemic for about five years, after a scare with bird flu in 2003.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

She says it probably will take about two years after the pandemic has ended for the true figure to be established.

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Fukuda notes a pandemic has nothing to do with the severity of the disease, but rather with its geographic spread.

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

"No previous pandemic has been detected so early or watched so closely, in real-time, right at the very beginning."

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Most of the developed world has gone through exercises to prepare their systems in the event of a pandemic.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Hong Kong's pandemic alert will remain at its highest, as at least eight suspected flu cases still awaiting test results.

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

"It is quite possible with an influenza virus, a pandemic influenza virus that it gets worse over time.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

Pandemic experts explain a second wave does not necessarily entail any change in the composition of the virus.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

She says the pandemic has peaked in many countries, including the United States, Canada and parts of Europe.

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"The biggest question,right now, is this: how severe will the pandemic be, especially now at the start?,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.29

Late last April, World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan warned that a pandemic was imminent and the time to prepare for it was short.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

"I think it is too premature and too early for us to say we have come to an end of the pandemic influenza worldwide,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

As doctors grapple with the H1N1 flu pandemic, studies like these could prove very useful.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

But there was no plan for distributing a pandemic level vaccine in the U.S.or anywhere.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

"It had a tremendous impact on children and adults with chronic medical conditions so it would be a mistake to characterize the pandemic as being mild."

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She says it is better to have a moderate pandemic with a large supply of vaccines, rather than a severe pandemic with inadequate supplies of vaccine.

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