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Meeting on avian influenza and human pandemic influenza

Date: 7-9 November 2005
Location: Geneva, Switzerland

The World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Organisation for Animal Health and the World Bank will cosponsor a meeting on avian influenza and human pandemic influenza on 7-9 November 2005 at WHO headquarters, Geneva.

More about the meeting
Summary report [pdf 263kb]

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The Director-General's welcoming remarks
Director-General's closing remarks
Presentations day 1 through day 3

MEDIA

Media advisory
Photo gallery

Background documents

- Agenda [pdf 49kb]
- List of participants [pdf 219kb]
- Guide for participants [pdf 42kb]
- Avian influenza: assessing the pandemic threat
- Recommended strategic actions for responding to the avian influenza pandemic threat
- WHO checklist for influenza pandemic preparedness planning
- WHO global influenza preparedness plan
- Vaccines for pandemic influenza
- Informal consultation on influenza pandemic preparedness in countries with limited resources (2004)
- More on avian influenza :: Meeting summary report [pdf 263kb]

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