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Cập nhật 24/07/2008 14:04:00

Bird flu experts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have agreed to assess the ability of their governments to respond to a deadly human pandemic of the virus.

Meeting in Jakarta for a three day meeting the representatives agreed their countries must be better organised to tackle a human-to-human outbreak of the H5N1 virus.

Bayu Krisnamurthi an Indonesian official says the 10 states have little organised bureaucracy or infrastructure to tackle a pandemic,.

ASEAN health ministers will meet in the Philippines in October to discuss preparedness and the need to develop a common plan to deal with the threat.