Tag Archives : Margaret Chan

According to data, only 5% of the world’s population or some 154 million people benefit from anti-smoking laws. Additionally, statistics show that passive smoking is responsible for about 600,000 deaths a year. The anti-tobacco lobby is a lost battle especially in developing countries and emerging economies where smoke-free laws are not strictly implemented, [...]

The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan, said this Thursday, at the opening of an international forum on swine influenza in Mexico, that the spread of H1N1 virus around the world “can not be more contained. ” “From what we see today, with more than 100 countries recording cases of influenza, since [...]