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World Health Organization

  • by Don Hooser
Some health officials fear that the current outbreak of swine flu may already be pandemic. A pandemic is a global epidemic, one that spreads from nation to nation.
  • by Good News
Up to a third of the world's population is infected by soil-borne diseases caused by worms and parasites, with 300 million experiencing severe adverse effects.
  • by Cecil Maranville, Darris McNeely, John Ross Schroeder
WHO estimates that 3 million people worldwide will die from AIDS during the year 2000. The agency estimates that this will bring the total number of adults and children who have died because of the disease to 21.8 million.
  • by Cecil Maranville, Darris McNeely, David Palmer
India is fighting an ancient war in a desert village, not against an armed enemy, but against the scourge of polio.