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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 4434275" data-attributes="member: 92282">Poor states may need aid for swine flu -UN's BanThe world must make sure that poorer countries hit hard by other crises do not have to bear the brunt of any possible swine flu pandemic, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday. "The swine flu outbreak shows yet again that, in our interconnected world, no nation can deal with threats of such dimension on its own," Ban told reporters.          He added that if the swine flu outbreak becomes a pandemic, global solidarity will be crucial. "Poorer nations are especially vulnerable," he said. "They have been hit hard by other crises this year -- food, energy, the global economy, climate change. We must ensure that they are not also hit disproportionately hard by a potential health crisis." He said that the World Bank and other U.N. development and humanitarian agencies would "mobilize to ensure that countries needing additional financial resources to combat an epidemic will have them." Ban said he was in constant contact with the head of the U.N. World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, about the outbreak.</blockquote>

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