Margaret Chan indicated officially for a second term at the head of the WHO

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GENEVA - The executive advice of the worldwide Organization of health (WHO) officially named on Wednesday the actual general head of the organization, Margaret Chan, 64-year-old and whose mandate ends in June, 2012, candidate in its own succession, to a press release. Mrs Chan was the only candidate in her succession at the head of the WHO. His name had been offered by China last November. The proposal of executive advice, where assemble the representatives of 34 countries, will nevertheless have to be approved by the general meeting (194 countries) of the WHO, which meets from 21 till 26 May of this year in Geneva. Margaret Chan, named general head of the WHO in November, 2006, was before responsible for the health of the government of Hong Kong. It was confronted to the first fire of aviaire influenza in 1997 and managed the episode of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sras) in 2003. In the WHO, she had thrown pand?mique alert on influenza H1N1 in June, 2009.

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