WHO gets ready declare a swine flu pandemic

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WHO gets ready declare a swine flu pandemic

By MARIA CHENG AND FRANK JORDANS The Associated Press, June 10, 2009

GENEVA -- The World Health Organization is gearing up to declare a swine flu

pandemic, a move that could trigger both the large-scale production of vaccines

and questions about why the step was delayed for weeks as the virus continued to

spread.

On Wednesday, WHO chief Dr. Margaret Chan quizzed eight countries with large

swine flu outbreaks to see if a pandemic, or global epidemic, should be

declared. After Chan's teleconference, the agency announced that an emergency

meeting with its flu experts would be held Thursday...

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