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WHO close to announcing swine flu pandemic, says official

Wed, 06/10/2009 - 03:48 by Salinder Kumar

Geneva, June 10: The World Health Organisation (WHO) is "very close" to announcing a global pandemic for the influenza A(H1N1) virus, also called swine flu, as it continues to spread rapidly, a senior official said.

"We are getting really very close to knowing that we are in a pandemic situation, or I think, declaring that we are in a pandemic situation," WHO Assistant director-general Keiji Fukuda told reporters in Geneva Tuesday.

He said signs of community-level transmission of the virus had appeared in Australia, where more than 1,000 human cases have been confirmed in the past few days.

Swine flu pandemic imminent, warns WHO, raises alert level

Thu, 04/30/2009 - 17:43 by Salinder Kumar

Mexico City/Washington/Toronto, April 30:The alert for swine flu, which originated in Mexico and has now spread to several countries, was raised to a level which is one shy of a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as governments aggressively tried to contain its spread.

As the total number of confirmed swine flu cases worldwide rose to 155, WHO Director General Margaret Chan raised the pandemic alert to phase 5.

The declaration is a strong signal that a pandemic is imminent. It is characterised by human-to-human spread of the virus into at least two countries in one WHO region, DPA news agency reported from Geneva.

The fears of swine flu having reached India were dispelled by the WHO which said the country has not reported any swine flu case and was prepared to handle a possible outbreak.

New vaginal gel- A ray of hope in AIDS treatment

Thu, 03/05/2009 - 11:25 by Bithika Khargarhia

Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 5: Researchers at the University of Minnesota have claimed to have found a novel way to curb the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, a debilitating and deadly disease of the human immune system.