Global Airport News
The World Health Organization is poised to declare a pandemic with the new H1N1 influenza virus spreading widely in Australia — far from the Americas, where it was first diagnosed in people.
But WHO officials have stressed that such a move reflects the geographic spread of the disease, and not its severity.
Below are details on what Asia is doing to combat and ward off the virus, which appears a lot milder than the H5N1 bird flu and SARS which have hit the region in recent years:
