GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Wednesday that up to $1 billion would be needed over the next three years to fund a global strategy to tackle the spread of H5N1 bird flu.
On the final day of a three-day meeting at the World Health Organisation (WHO), World Bank officials said it was crucial to stamp out the disease at source in poultry as well as prepare countries for a potential human flu pandemic.
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