G8 MONEY MEN GRIM OUT OVER PANDEMIC IMPACT

From News.com.au :

"Some of the poorest developing countries lack the resources....to pay farmers adequately to get rid of sick chickens," World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz said.

"It is very much in the interest of the richest countries to help finance preventative measures in the poorer countries," he said.

"The H5N1 strain of bird flu found in Nigerian poultry is the same virus previously de"tected in Turkey, Europe, China and Southeast Asia, which suggests it was brought to west Africa by migrant birds, an expert with the World Organisation for Animal Health said Friday."

The Asian Development Bank has released a report that indicates a human pandemic of avian influenza could infect one in five of all people in Asia and disappear $US 100 billion a year, with drops in trade and services cut by at least 14 percent.