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Updated Sunday, October 26, 2008 11:11 am TWN, AFP

U.S. pledges US$320 mil. in fight against bird flu

CAIRO -- The United States will provide an additional 320 million dollars to aid in the fight against bird flu, a US official said on Saturday during an international bird flu conference being held in Egypt.

The US had pledged 629 million dollars last December during a conference in New Delhi that raised 2.7 billion dollars to fight against the avian flu, which the UN says could cause a global crisis.

“The United States is pledging an additional 320 million dollars in international assistance for avian and pandemic influenza,” said Paula Dobriansky, US Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs told the conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

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