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WHO says flu pandemic imminent - Level 5

04.30.2009

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WHO says flu pandemic imminent - Level 5

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GENEVA, April 29 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Wednesday the world is at the brink of a pandemic, raising its threat level as the swine flu virus spread and killed the first person outside of Mexico, a toddler in Texas.

"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world," WHO Director General Margaret Chan told a news conference in Geneva as she raised the official alert level to phase 5, the last step before a pandemic.

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WiseOne's Comments, I wonder if this flu will do like the one in 1918...it died off in the summer and THEN came back in the winter flu season with a vengeance and killed up to 100 million then...

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