APEC agrees long-term plan to fight avian flu
Asian countries hardest hit by avian flu would keep ringing alarm bells in a push for transparency and international cooperation to prevent a possible global pandemic, health officials said on Friday. “Any one single day of delaying our efforts in controlling this means higher cost and bigger loss,” He Changchui, Asia Pacific representative of the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, said at a regional bird flu conference in Vietnam. Full Story