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/ 9 November 2005
Fighting bird flu in poultry across the world and preparing for a human influenza pandemic will cost up to -billion over the next three years, the World Bank said on Wednesday. That cost does not include the stockpiling of antiviral drugs and human flu vaccines, Fadia Saadah, of the World Bank, told a global meeting on how to contain the disease.
Scientists have developed a new cheap and convenient malaria pill that could boost the success of the fight against the disease, which kills nearly two million people a year in poor countries, experts said on Thursday. Between 350-million and 500-million people get sick with malaria every year, the World Health Organisation estimates.