Canadian Philipe Lamy World Health Organization representative in Mexico talks with Director Panamerican Health Organization Mirta Roses during a plenary session of the WHO Summit "Influenza Lessons Learned and Preparedness", in Cancun, Mexico on July 3, 2009. Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago

Canadian Philipe Lamy World Health Organization representative in Mexico talks with Director Panamerican Health Organization Mirta Roses during a plenary session of the WHO Summit "Influenza Lessons Learned and Preparedness", in Cancun, Mexico on July 3, 2009.

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  5. Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko, left, meets visiting officials of The World Health Organization, no name given, in Kiev, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. Ukraine's flu death toll has climbed to 109 since last week's outbreak in the western city of Ternopil. The World Health Organization says most flu cases in the country can be assumed to be H1N1.
  6. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan holds a copy of the "Women and Health" report during a news conference at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva November 9, 2009. WHO is launching the "Women and Health: Today's Evidence, Tomorrow's Agenda" report which provides the latest and most comprehensive evidence available to date on women's specific needs and health challenges over their entire life-course.
  7. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan arrives arrives for a news conference at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva November 9, 2009. WHO is launching the "Women and Health: Today's Evidence, Tomorrow's Agenda" report which provides the latest and most comprehensive evidence available to date on women's specific needs and health challenges over their entire life-course.
  8. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan holds a copy of the "Women and Health" report during a news conference at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva November 9, 2009. WHO is launching the "Women and Health: Today's Evidence, Tomorrow's Agenda" report which provides the latest and most comprehensive evidence available to date on women's specific needs and health challenges over their entire life-course.
  9. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan looks on during a news conference at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva November 9, 2009. WHO is launching the "Women and Health: Today's Evidence, Tomorrow's Agenda" report which provides the latest and most comprehensive evidence available to date on women's specific needs and health challenges over their entire life-course.
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  11. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan looks on during a news conference at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva November 9, 2009. WHO is launching the "Women and Health: Today's Evidence, Tomorrow's Agenda" report which provides the latest and most comprehensive evidence available to date on women's specific needs and health challenges over their entire life-course.
  12. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko adjusts her mask, a precaution against flu, during a visit to a hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Russia and Slovakia have tightened their borders with Ukraine as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak. The European Union says it is coordinating closely with health experts in Ukraine to help it cope with a suspected swine flu outbreak.
  13. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko adjusts her mask, a precaution against flu, during a visit to a hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Russia and Slovakia have tightened their borders with Ukraine as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak. The European Union says it is coordinating closely with health experts in Ukraine to help it cope with a suspected swine flu outbreak.
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  15. Wearing mask as a precaution against flu, taxi driver Andrei Melnichuk feeds pigeons in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Russia and Slovakia have tightened their borders with Ukraine as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak. The European Union says it is coordinating closely with health experts in Ukraine to help it cope with a suspected swine flu outbreak.
  16. Women wear masks as a precaution against flu in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. The death toll from flu has climbed to 71 since the outbreak struck last week in the western city of Ternopil, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said. Blood tests have yet to determine how many of these deaths were from the new and aggressive H1N1 strain. But the WHO said in a statement on Tuesday that most flu cases in Ukraine can be assumed to be H1N1, "as the pandemic virus has rapidly become the dominant influenza strain worldwide."

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