1.   Usually, influenza immunization programs have been completed by now.

2.   Dr Daniel Lavanchy, the head of the influenza program for the World Health Organisation, said people could contract bird flu from diseased chickens in markets.

3.   Its latest monthly flu statistics showed a rising number of patients with the illness under their influenza surveillance program.

4.   The team is headed by the WHO head of the influenza program Dr Daniel Lavanchy and will include epidemiologists from the United States, Japan and Hong Kong.