U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012.  REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov  (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Members of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels fly over the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan as part of the 25th annual Fleet Week celebration in New York, May 23, 2012.  REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY ANNIVERSARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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U.N.'s Ban says world still in flu "danger zone"

GENEVA | Tue May 19, 2009 10:26am EDT

GENEVA (Reuters) - The world remains under threat from the new H1N1 influenza strain, even if the effect so far has been fairly mild, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday.

"We must remain vigilant. We may be in a grace period with H1N1 but we are still in the danger zone," Ban told a news conference during the World Health Organization's annual congress.

(Reporting by Laura MacInnis and Katie Reid)

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