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Article: NEW ZEALAND: PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES $2 MILLION FUNDING FOR PACIFIC REGIONAL INFLUENZA PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS PROJECT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 26, 2006
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The government of New Zealand issued the following news release:
Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that New Zealand is committing $2 million to a Pacific Regional Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Project for the 2007-09 period.
Helen Clark said this grant followed that of $810,000 to the the Secretariat of the Pacific Community for 2006-07.
"It is widely accepted that a future influenza pandemic is inevitable, and Pacific Island countries won't be safe.
"Previous pandemics had enormous social and health impacts in the Pacific: in 1918 some of the islands of the Pacific such as Samoa and Tahiti had mortality rates as high as 20-25 per cent of the total population.
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