W.H.O.special adviser Keiji Fukuda reported earlier this month that the virus has acted in some ways like seasonal flu.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

The W.H.O.says pregnant women should take the antiviral drug Tamiflu as soon as possible after they show signs of illness.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Without new treatments,the W.H.O.says, the number of new cancer patients could reach twenty-seven million a year by two thousand thirty.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The W.H.O.estimates that up to thirty percent of the medicines on sale in many of those countries are counterfeit.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

W.H.O.special adviser Keiji Fukuda said last week that the virus has continued to act in some ways like seasonal flu.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Doctor Fukuda, an acting assistant director-general, said the W.H.O.has been working with the member states to prepare for a pandemic.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The W.H.O.is now advising infected women to begin antiretroviral drugs at fourteen weeks of pregnancy, instead of twenty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

For the first time the W.H.O.raised its alert level from phase four to phase five on April twenty-ninth.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The W.H.O.says counterfeits represents less than one percent of the illegal drug market in countries like the United States, Canada,Japan,and New Zealand.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

The W.H.O.is calling on those governments to ban tobacco advertising to the fullest extent possible and to do more to protect women.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

The W.H.O.report estimates that twelve million people will be found to have some form of cancer this year.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

But in nineteen ninety-one, Democrats accused President George H.W.Bush of using the last such speech for political purposes.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

During his life, Adair received Special Letters of Recognition from Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and George H.W.Bush.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Twenty years ago this week, President George H.W.Bush signed a civil rights law that Americans call the ADA.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

The W.H.O.has an influenza warning system in which phase six means that a pandemic is taking place.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The W.H.O.says most poor countries spend less than one percent of their health budgets on mental health.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

The W.H.O.offices for the Americas and the Western Pacific reported two out of three of those cases.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

W.H.O.Director-General Margaret Chan declared the sickness a pandemic a disease that has spread to many nations.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

At current growth rates, the W.H.O.expects the number to reach twenty million by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

The W.H.O.says treatment should begin immediately and not wait for the results of laboratory tests.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

The W.H.O.says the tobacco industry has increasingly directed its marketing campaigns at women and girls.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

For example,a W.H.O.statement urged nations not to close their borders or limit trade and travel.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

The W.H.O.says insecticide-treated bed nets have been shown to reduce the number of malaria cases by fifty percent and the infection rate by ninety percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

The W.H.O.says two hundred forty-seven million people became infected with malaria in two thousand six.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

The W.H.O.estimates that tobacco use caused one hundred million deaths in the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

The W.H.O.says the international community is now in a position to defeat malaria.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

The W.H.O.is advising people to wash their hands often with soap and water.

VOA: special.2009.05.06