WHO: We are in a time of great uncertainty
Posted in Main News on May 22nd, 2009 by admin – Be the first to commentWorld Health Organization (WHO) has decided to maintain the level 5 (on a scale of 6) alert the influenza A , while insisting the need to not let our guard down because the possibility of a pandemic remains latent.
The alert level is in phase 5 for eighteen days, which means it has been demonstrated that contagion exists Community Only one of the regions of the healthcare organization, in this case in Northern America (Mexico and United States).
The director general of WHO , Margaret Chan, has said that nobody knows how long the incidence of mild cases that were observed recently in various countries, and recalls that while this new flu circulating in the world can not be excluded that the risk of combined with other viruses.
We are in a time of great uncertainty , Chan said when opening the World Health Assembly, which this year coincides with the outbreak of influenza A, which focus the discussions. read more »