Mods: Buried in this article on Iraq on the Iraq Constitution is reportage of WHO and the potential of bird flu in Iraq. I have posted it separately from the main article, so I have rewritten the headline to more accurately reflect this separate post.http://start.earthlink.net/article/int?guid=20060112/43c5e250_3ca6_15526200601121363828258Politician: Iraq Constitution Won't ChangeBy PATRICK QUINN (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
January 12, 2006 3:41 AM EST
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Doctors, veterinarians and other health ministry officials met Sunday in northern Iraq's Kurdish enclave to discuss bird flu, the region's minister of agriculture said.
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There have been no reported cases of bird flu in Iraq...
But it remained unclear what steps could be taken in violence-wracked Iraq should an outbreak occur.
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Capt. Peter Purrington, a surgeon with the 101st Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade, said the unit had the anti-viral drug Tamiflu available, but was not stockpiling it in case of a significant outbreak.
In Geneva, WHO said a network of "focal points" had been set up across Iraq, with doctors responsible for surveillance and investigating any possible outbreak. WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said if there is a bird flu outbreak in Iraq, "it will be difficult, but we worked also in other war-torn countries."
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Associated Press reporters Bushra Juhi in Baghdad, Ryan Lenz in Tikrit, Yahya Barzanji in Kirkuk, and Sam Cage in Geneva contributed to this report.