| April 26, 2009 | - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control declared a public-health emergency over an outbreak of swine flu that has infected at least 20 people in California, Kansas, New York, Ohio, and Texas. The virus is believed to have originated in Mexico City, where more than 149 people, all aged between 20 and 40, have died, and at least 1,300 people have gotten sick. Mexico's government closed all schools, universities, and zoos, canceled church services, soccer games, and bullfights, and banned visits to beauty salons and juvenile detention centers. Swine flu has been found in Canada, China, France, Israel, New Zealand, and Spain, prompting the World Health Organization to consider raising the pandemic alert level from 3 to 4 out of 6.
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New York Times
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Yahoo News
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| July 11, 2008 | - The World Health Organization warned people not to go into Ugandan bat caves after a Dutch tourist died from the Marburg virus, a hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola.
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BBC
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| February 26, 2008 | - The World Health Organization announced that virtually untreatable drug-resistant tuberculosis could now be found in 45 countries with a half-million new cases each year, and that the highest rate of infection was in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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World Health Organization
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| March 28, 2007 | - The World Health Organization endorsed circumcision as a tool to reduce the spread of HIV. “The recommendations represent a significant step forward,” said WHO HIV/AIDS director Kevin De Cock.
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BBC
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| December 14, 2006 | - Kevin De Cock, HIV/AIDS director of the World Health Organization, warned that circumcision was “not a magic bullet.”
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BBC
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| June 21, 2006 | - The World Health Organization said that Indonesians who contracted bird flu were ignorant.
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Reuters via Google News
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| January 20, 2005 | - The World Health Organization warned that the bird flu virus endemic in Asia was mutating in such a way that it could cause a major, overdue human influenza outbreak with a "best case scenario" of 2 million to 7 million deaths.
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Reuters
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| December 30, 2004 | - The World Health Organization warned that outbreaks of cholera and dysentery resulting from a lack of clean drinking water could easily double the number of people killed by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Reuters
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| October 30, 2004 | - The World Health Organization announced that avian flu probably has not mutated into a form that can pass from human to human.
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New York Times
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| October 7, 2004 | - The World Health Organization released a study, based on an unscientific "spot-check" sampling, concluding that Indonesian villagers in Buyat Bay, Sulawesi, have not been poisoned by a gold mine, owned by the Newmont Mining Corporation, that dumped about 2,000 tons of mine tailings a day into nearby waters.
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New York Times
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| September 8, 2004 | - The World Health Organization reported that suicide kills more people worldwide than murder and war put together.
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New Scientist
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| August 27, 2004 | - The World Health Organization said that hepatitis E cases have tripled in the last month in Darfur.
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New Scientist
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| February 2, 2004 | - The World Health Organization reported a possible case of human-to-human transmission of the avian flu that has killed millions of birds across Asia and at least 12 people.
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BBC
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| January 26, 2004 | - Avian influenza was spreading across Asia; the World Health Organization said it was the largest outbreak in history.
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New Scientist
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