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Wide of meeting of ASEAN Health Ministers2. Malaysian Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai3. Wide of Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu seated next to health ministry representatives from Japan and South Korea4. Close-up of Chen5. Wide of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of meeting of ASEAN Health Ministers\u003cbr/\u003e2. Malaysian Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu seated next to health ministry representatives from Japan and South Korea\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close-up of Chen\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of officials during meeting\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of video conference with Richard Besser, acting director of US Centre for Disease Control\u003cbr/\u003e7. Representative from South Korea\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Francisco Duque III, Philippines Health Secretary:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The objective of this meeting is precisely to share with each other what this preparedness and action plans are and what are the gaps and hope to achieve the gaps by learning from each other. We may be good in one aspect of the preparedness and action plan, others may be good in some of the areas. So we can just learn from each other and agree on common points that ... essentially at the end of the day, it is important that if it does occur in one of the ASEAN member countries, there is rapid containment and everybody will help that one country.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva walking to podium\u003cbr/\u003e10. Cutaway of crowd\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abhisit Vejjajiva, Prime Minister of Thailand:\u003cbr/\u003e\"With a combined population of almost one half of the world's population, health threats particularly from a trans-boundary, easily communicable emerging disease will obviously affect both the lives of our people as well as compound the problems already caused by the global financial crisis. No single country is able to control and cope with such a threat alone, rather intensive international cooperation is required.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Cutaway of cameramen\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of Thai Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai at podium\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (Thai) Witthaya Kaewparadai, Public Health Minister of Thailand:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the globalised and interconnected world, to deal with an emerging infectious disease with a rapid spread, we need a strong cooperation mechanism, in particular, with regard to disease surveillance and disease control and prevention at borders without hindrance to travel and trade. Developing tools, instruments and management systems for prevention, control and treatment of diseases is considerably needed.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of health ministers listening\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of WHO Director General Margaret Chan speaking on screen\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Margaret Chan, Director General, World Health Organisation (++SHOWN SPEAKING ON VIDEO SCREEN++)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Do not drop the ball on monitoring H5N1. This virus is endemic in poultry in parts of the region. We have no idea how H5N1 will behave under the pressure of a pandemic.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Various of security, soldiers and police outside Dusit Thani hotel, venue of meeting\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide shot of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e20. Pan of health officials and ASEAN Secretary General Surin Witsuwan\u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide of Singapore official and Vietnam Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu\u003cbr/\u003e22. Mid of Japanese Senior Vice Minister of Health Labour and Welfare, Takao Watanabe\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francisco Duque III, Philippines Health Secretary:\u003cbr/\u003e\"To consider establishing assistance within the ASEAN plus 3 countries to facilitate sharing of essential supplies in an emergency. The ministers also encourage the transfer of technology in relation to the production of anti-viral medicines, as well as vaccines, regional cooperation measures such as establishing hotlines among national health authorities. Joint investigation and response teams and transferring research were also stressed by the ministers in their joint statement.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide shot of health ministers meeting\u003cbr/\u003e25. Wide of Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu attending meeting\u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE:  (English) Chen Zhu, Chinese Health Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"At this time we think that this kind of precaution and the measures are still necessary, but the things may change according to the analysis of the WHO, and of our experts.\"\u003cbr/\u003e27. Various of production of Osetamilvir antiviral flu drug \u003cbr/\u003eHealth ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations along with China, South Korea and Japan met in Bangkok on Friday to discuss measures and step up cooperation to avoid the spread of swine flu in the region. \u003cbr/\u003eAlthough the virus has largely spared the region, authorities are drawing up a plan for dealing with an outbreak of swine flu that has sickened thousands worldwide, taking measures to develop vaccines and bolster medicine stockpiles.\u003cbr/\u003eSouth Korea remained the only Asian country with confirmed cases of swine flu, or the H1N1 virus, while China on Thursday released a group of people quarantined for a week after being on the same flight as a Mexican man diagnosed with swine flu.\u003cbr/\u003eSpeaking on Friday at the two-day ASEAN conference, delegates from the Philippines and Thailand said the meeting would be a chance to boost cooperation among governments and a way to learn from each others' experiences. \u003cbr/\u003ePhilippines Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, also chairman of ASEAN, told the conference the objective was to share action plans and to learn from each other.\u003cbr/\u003eThailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva also encouraged an \"intensive\" cooperation between countries in the region.\u003cbr/\u003eSome of these Southeast Asian nations are considered to be among the world's most prepared because of their experience responding to the SARS outbreak in 2003 and bird flu since then.\u003cbr/\u003eChina's tough measures have drawn complaints from Mexico and other countries that their citizens were being quarantined based merely on their nationality. Mexico's president has called the Chinese measures discriminatory.\u003cbr/\u003eChina defends the measures, which it says are needed to block swine flu virus from entering the world's most populous nation.\u003cbr/\u003eHowever, Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organisation warned ministers not to forget the H5N1 virus - or avian flu virus - still endemic in poultry.  \u003cbr/\u003eSpeaking on a video screen at the conference, she told members the effects of a pandemic of H1N1 virus on the avian virus were unknown and unpredictable. \u003cbr/\u003eHundreds of police and troops guarded the Dusit Thani hotel in downtown Bangkok where the officials met, to forestall a repeat of last month's meeting of Asian leaders which was broken up by anti-government demonstrators. \u003cbr/\u003eThe meeting began on Thursday and no protests have been staged so far.\u003cbr/\u003eAt a news conference later on Friday Philippines Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, also chairman of ASEAN, reiterated the need for cooperation and the sharing of technology relating to anti-viral medication and vaccines.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu defended his nations tough stance, but admitted that the situation could change with further analysis from the WHO and Chinese health experts.\u003cbr/\u003eThe majority of swine flu cases have come from Mexico which has reported 840 of the nearly 1,600 confirmed cases of swine flu in 23 countries worldwide. \u003cbr/\u003eThere have been 44 deaths, 42 in Mexico and two in the US. \u003cbr/\u003eSouth Korea on Thursday confirmed a third case of swine flu, but said the 62-year-old woman already had recovered from the disease and was being released from a military-run hospital.\u003cbr/\u003eThe woman had been staying in the US state of Arizona and was on the same flight back to South Korea as the country's first confirmed patient, a Catholic nun returning from a trip to Mexico on April 26. \u003cbr/\u003eThe nun 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