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[Sierra Express Media] Kamara, Director of Livestock Services at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security disclosed that the 7th International Ministerial Conference on Animal and Pandemic Influenza convened in Hanoi, Vietnam, on 1921 April 2010 and hosted by the government of Vietnam, in coordination with the European Union and the United States of America with the support of the UN system influenza coordination and international organizations. He said the international community is quite concerned about the catastrophe that may occur as a result of full blown influenza pandemic outbreak as it had before this time resulted in the death of millions of human populations.

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