He strained his eyes to see he knew not what. His senses were all alert.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

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

The alert was issued after the kidnapping and rescue of a New York Times reporter in Kunduz province.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan said the alert level was stepped up because influenza viruses are unpredictable and can spread quickly around the world.

VOA: standard.2009.04.29

Pyongyang also promised to alert the South if similar situations arise in the future.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

That could explain why many gun advocates keep alert year-after-year, analyzing the next administration.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

The U.S.State Department has issued a fresh travel alert for India, saying the U.S.government continues to receive information that terrorist groups may be planning attacks here.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Dr.Chan said all countries should immediately activate their pandemic preparedness plans and countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

VOA: standard.2009.04.29

But it has taken on new urgency,coming one day after the World Health Organization raised its global swine flu alert to Phase 4 on the six-point scale.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Speaking to local media, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said intelligence agencies had expected attacks on security sites in the country and that authorities will remain on high-alert.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The alert focuses on five states: Bihar,Chhattisgarh,Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

"With that,I expect the security agencies to be 24-hours alert.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

General Fonseka,in the letter, says Sri Lanka asked India on October 15 to place troops on alert in case they would be needed to intervene to foil a coup on the island.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

"I hope that what a study like this will do would be to help alert clinicians, residents in training, and medical students that severity is an important factor to consider in planning treatment,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

"It's physiological and it's emotional." "Physiologically,we have a tendency when we come into a situation that seems dangerous we get a lot of chemicals flowing through our bodies to help us stay alert, to be able to act if we need to act.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions should now be undertaken with increased urgency, and at an accelerated pace,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.29

The World Health Organization says it needs to see clear evidence of sustained community transmission of the swine flu virus from person-to-person in at least two regions of the world before it raises its alert to the phase six pandemic level.

VOA: standard.2009.05.14