WHO to review H1N1 pandemic status on Feb 23
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization's emergency committee of experts will meet on February 23 to decide whether the H1N1 flu pandemic has peaked, the WHO's top flu expert, Keiji Fukuda, said on Thursday.
Fukuda told a news conference that the WHO's recommendation earlier on Thursday to include the H1N1 strain in vaccines for the next 2010/11 northern hemisphere flu season did not mean that the H1N1 influenza pandemic, declared last June, was over.
(Reporting by Jonathan Lynn; Editing by Stephanie Nebehay)
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Comments (3)
silqworm wrote:
Arrest FUkuda as a Nazi genocidalist. The WHO is still hoping the Baxter frankenvirus contageousness will reassort with the other two strains into a new plague. Nice try Fukuda, but we’re on to you, and the UN itself will be gone before next flu season.
jlhavey wrote:
When is this guy going to quit before
he`s booted out,
But by Who ?
logic wrote:
So you’re saying that all viruses are created by mad scientists in labs and don’t come from nature and instead of being spread by people too ignorant to cover their cough or wash their hands they all come from the end of a needle? Wow. The black helicopter crowd never fails to amuse, that’s for sure.
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