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A regional meeting of the World Health Organisation in New Caledonia has heard a change in farming practices would counter the threat posed by bird flu to the region. The...

The World Health Organisation meeting in New Caledonia say the planet must be prepared for a pandemic of bird flu. Speaking in the territorial capital, Noumea, the WHO director-general Lee...

Representatives from 37 countries will discuss the threat of bird flu to the region at a conference in New Caledonia this week. The World Health Organisation has arranged the meeting...

Authorities in the Northern Marianas say the island chain is vulnerable to a potential epidemic of bird flu. The medical director of the CNMI Division of Public Health, Richard Brostrom,...

Fiji's hotels have been advised to insure themselves against interruptions to their business from terrorism attacks, tsunamis, cyclones, floods and infectious diseases. The Fiji Times reports that the…

The Director of Livestock in Solomon Islands has appealed to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation for urgent help in making an abattoir in Honiara. Duddley Wate says the...

A mysterious flu outbreak in Solomon Islands has eased. The superintendent of the National Referring Hospital superintendent, Dr Judson Leafasia, says they are now treating fewer people for the flu...

A further meeting is being held in Fiji this week in order to review plans to prepare for the possibility of an outbreak of the deadly bird flu. The World...

Fiji is preparing for any possible outbreak of the deadly bird flu in the country or the Pacific region. Government officials along with representatives from the health and agricultural sectors...