WHO To Review Pandemic Status Tomorrow

 

 

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On June 1st the World Health Organization will convene a special teleconference with their influenza advisory committee to decide on the current status of the pandemic.   We should have some word later in the day as to what they decide.

 

Here is the Reuters report.

 

Experts to review status of flu pandemic on Tuesday

GENEVA

Mon May 31, 2010 2:23pm BST

GENEVA (Reuters) - An expert panel that advises the World Health Organization on pandemics will meet Tuesday to decide whether to declare the H1N1 flu outbreak over.

 

The WHO said in a statement Monday that its emergency committee will begin a teleconference at 1200 GMT Tuesday and results will be posted later in the day on its website.

 

Earlier this month, a WHO spokesman said the committee would consider three main options.

 

These would be to conclude that the pandemic was still in force and retain the WHO's current phase 6 on its 6-level pandemic scale; state that pandemic had moved into a transitional "post-peak" phase; or declare that the pandemic was over.

 

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