Health officials around the world are stating the global population is not prepared for a widespread flu pandemic.

Doctors site the lack of awareness and medicine as the top reasons for concern and are quickly trying to design plans to fight a potential disaster that could claim millions of lives

Christina Ficara - All Headline News Staff Reporter

NEW YORK (AHN) -

Christina Ficara - All Headline News Staff Reporter

New York, NY (AHN) -

The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm over H5N1 bird flu becoming human pandemic. Analysts are calling for immediate mass vaccinations of poultry.

The virus is already responsible for killing 54 people in Asia and appears to spread only by close interaction of humans with sick birds or infected poultry

The World Heath Organization's (WHO) plan to get three million people in the poorest parts of the world onto anti-AIDS drugs by 2005, has reportedly fallen short.

According to a WHO report, only one million people are currently receiving life saving AIDS treatments, leaving the organization almost certain that they will not be able to meet their goal