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5-24-2006 08:03 WHO says no plans to raise bird flu alert level

08:03 WHO says no plans to raise bird flu alert level

    GENEVA, May 24 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation

(WHO) said on Wednesday it had no immediate plans to call a

meeting of experts to discuss raising its global bird flu alert.

    "Right now it does not look like the task force will need to

meet immediately, but this is subject to change depending on

what comes out of Indonesia," WHO spokeswoman Maria Cheng told

Reuters.

    She had been asked to comment on press reports that the U.N.

agency could convene a meeting of its experts within the next

few days. Under WHO's action plan for dealing with bird flu, its

panel of experts will be consulted before any action is taken.

 ((Reporting by Richard Waddington, editing by Steve Pagani;

geneva.newsroom [at] reuters.com; Reuters Messaging:

richard.waddington.reuters.com [at] reuters.net))

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