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- abbreviation World Health Organization
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- initialism The World Health Organization
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Examples
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" He was clearly the world ' s authority on smallpox and related viruses, " said Donald Henderson , emeritus dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, who led the WHO eradication program.
Virologist Helped Eradicate Smallpox Stephen Miller 2010
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Tom Jefferson, Formerly a general practitioner in the British Army who has worked for the well-respected Cochrane Collaboration for 15 years, Jefferson asked in July: "Don't you think there's something noteworthy about the fact that the WHO has changed its definition of pandemic?"
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Tom Jefferson, Formerly a general practitioner in the British Army who has worked for the well-respected Cochrane Collaboration for 15 years, Jefferson asked in July: "Don't you think there's something noteworthy about the fact that the WHO has changed its definition of pandemic?"
Niko Kyriakou: Swine Flu Didn't Fly Niko Kyriakou 2010
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Tom Jefferson, Formerly a general practitioner in the British Army who has worked for the well-respected Cochrane Collaboration for 15 years, Jefferson asked in July: "Don't you think there's something noteworthy about the fact that the WHO has changed its definition of pandemic?"
Swine Flu Didn't Fly 2010
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Anyone who tells you they know WHO god IS are to be mistrusted.
Lawrence Blair Ph.D.: Oh My God?: "God", a Word for Children? 2009
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The Egyptian group, which holds seats in Parliament, is echoing sentiments first put forward by Indonesia's minister of health, Siti Supari, who has refused to share her country's H5N1 samples with the WHO since 2006.
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I honestly believe that, were there not a large share of people who practice religious circumcision Jews and, increasingly, Muslims among the powerful international allopathic medical community/lobby, we would have already seen the practice declared a crime against humanity by the WHO.
WORLDWIDE PREVALENCE OF MALE CIRCUMCISION » Sociological Images 2009
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Asked who would foot the bill, Hogan said South Africa would provide any support the WHO required.
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On the other side of the argument was Donald Henderson, the heroic epidemiologist who led the WHO smallpox eradication program and later became Bush 41's science adviser.
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Worst of all, we will have those who supported McSame and Shrub like Marilyn M. with convenient memory loss that fail to admit just WHO nearly destroyed this economy, WHO illegally invaded Iraq and caused the deaths of Tens of Thousands standing on the side lines hurling verbal molotov cocktails and worse.
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"The WHO in Africa is staffed at higher levels with political appointees who lack training, skills, and experience - but are good at travel, expense accounts, and 5 star hotels."
June 17, 2015