Japan Times: G7 ministers to discuss emergency responses to pandemics at Kobe meet
“Health ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized countries began a meeting in Kobe on Sunday to discuss global health issues, including coordinated emergency responses to outbreaks of infectious diseases. … At the meeting, the World Health Organization gave a progress report on a manual for procedures to respond to high-severity disease outbreaks, while the ministers discussed the mechanism for the G7 countries to take coordinated steps to respond to emergency situations…” (9/11).