World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan (R) reacts as Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan gives her earphones during the Global Alcohol Policy Symposium in Istanbul April 26, 2013.
Princess Astrid of Belgium (L), special representative of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM), Cambodian Minister of Health Mam Bun Heng (C), and Shin Young-soo (R), World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for the western Pacific, attend a WHO launch at a hotel in Phnom Penh on April 25, 2013. The WHO on April 25 launched an offensive framework to combat drug-resistant malaria in the Mekong region, warning it poses a serious global health threat.
Shin Young-soo, World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for the western Pacific, speaks at a World Health Organization (WHO) launch at a hotel in Phnom Penh on April 25, 2013. The WHO on April 25 launched an offensive framework to combat drug-resistant malaria in the Mekong region, warning it poses a serious global health threat.
Princess Astrid of Belgium, special representative of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM), speaks at a World Health Organization (WHO) launch at a hotel in Phnom Penh on April 25, 2013. The WHO on April 25 launched an offensive framework to combat drug-resistant malaria in the Mekong region, warning it poses a serious global health threat.
Xu Jianguang, director-general and deputy secretary of the Communist Party of China Committee of Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau, left, Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment of World Health Organization (WHO), second from left, and other health officials attend the press conference in Shanghai, China Monday, April 22, 2013. There's no evidence a new bird flu strain is spreading easily among people in China even though there may be sporadic cases of the virus spreading to people who have close contacts with patients, the World Health Organization said.
Michael O'Leary, representative of World Health Organization (WHO) in China, attends a news conference by Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment of WHO Keiji Fukuda (not pictured) in Shanghai April 22, 2013. Two more people have died from a new strain of avian influenza, bringing to 20 the number of deaths from the H7N9 virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday. Chinese authorities have notified the WHO of six new cases, bringing the total to 102. Of those, 70 are still in hospital and 12 have been discharged. Five of the new cases were in Zhejiang province and one was in Shanghai.
