Margaret Chan (2nd R), Director General of World Health Organization and Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health of Canada, share a laugh during the first summit of "Lessons Learned and Preparedness of Swine Flu" in Cancun July 2, 2009. The international event shared and analyzed the experiences and opinions of ministers and experts from around the world. Reuters Pictures 4 months ago

Margaret Chan (2nd R), Director General of World Health Organization and Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health of Canada, share a laugh during the first summit of "Lessons Learned and Preparedness of Swine Flu" in Cancun July 2, 2009. The international event shared and analyzed the experiences and opinions of ministers and experts from around the world.

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  2. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organisation speaks with AFP in Hong Kong on September 21, 2009. Chan was attending the World Health Organization's annual Western Pacific meeting, at which Hong Kong's chief executive said authorities would take no chance in dealing with swine flu despite accusations of over-reacting since its first confirmed case was reported in May.
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  5. Director General of the World Health Organization, WHO, China's Dr. Margaret Chan, attends a press conference in Havana, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. Chan met with Castro for more than two hours and found him "very dynamic."
  6. Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan addresses the audience during a lecture at Instituto Pedro Kouri in Havana October 26, 2009.
  7. Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan addresses the audience during a lecture at Instituto Pedro Kouri in Havana October 26, 2009.
  8. Cuba's Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer talks to a doctor before a conference held by Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan at Instituto Pedro Kouri in Havana October 26, 2009.
  9. Cuba's Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer talks to a doctor before a conference held by Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan at Instituto Pedro Kouri in Havana October 26, 2009.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  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. 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.
  14. 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."
  15. A man adjusts his mask, a precaution against flu, while walking 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. Commuters wear masks as a precaution against flu while riding a bus 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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