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...hide,” he said. “The whole [global] community is really after the most accurate satellite technology to track down where most pollution comes from, to see if countries are in compliance with international treaties.” The Dutch-Finnish Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), used for this research, is unique for its daily global coverage. “Previously satellites...looked at [regions] every three days or every week, but OMI has the advantage of seeing the same place every day,” Wang added...
Shortly after health experts met last week in Kuala Lumpur to craft a plan to control avian flu, Dr. Shigeru Omi, Regional Director for the World Health Organization's (WHO) Western Pacific region, spoke with TIME's Bryan Walsh about the challenge of fighting a highly unpredictable virus, the need to harness international resources, and the terrible toll a human pandemic would take...
...many Cambodians clinging to reassuring misinformation about the disease. Cambodia recently became the third nation since 2004 to suffer a human fatality from bird flu, intensifying concerns that it will continue to spread. "The world is now in the gravest possible danger of a pandemic," warned Dr. Shigeru Omi, the Western Pacific regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO), during an international bird-flu conference last week in Ho Chi Minh City. "The longer the virus is circulating in animals, the greater the risk of more human cases?and consequently, the higher the risk of a pandemic emerging through...
...human transmission have occurred. But if bird flu mutates and gains the ability to transmit as easily as normal flu-and scientists say that is a real possibility-it could trigger a worldwide pandemic similar to that in 1918. That prospect was raised last week, when Dr. Shigeru Omi, the World Health Organization's (WHO) regional director for the Western Pacific, estimated that such a pandemic could infect 25-30% of the world's population and kill up to 100 million people. Omi's number is higher than earlier estimates, but even in the best-case scenarios millions might...
...That's assuming they weren't sick themselves. If the bird-flu virus spread at the rate Omi estimated, nearly a third of the world's population could become ill. That means a third of the world's police officers, government officials, soldiers, technicians-and medical workers-could be knocked out for weeks. Even the temporary loss of such a large part of the work force could lead to severe disruptions of public services-and complicate efforts to fight the pandemic. Countries and businesses need contingency plans in place now, yet in Asia only Japan has any real pandemic scheme...