WHO SAYS H1N1 SWINE FLU PANDEMIC NOT OVER

20.01.2010 [13:00]
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Baku, 20 January (AZERTAC). The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan say the H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic is not as serious as anticipated, VOA reports. But, she says this is no time to relax, as the Pandemic is not over. Chan spoke at the opening of WHO`s weeklong Executive Board meeting in Geneva.

World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan says when H1N1 appeared her agency was expecting an event similar the 1918 pandemic, which killed 50 million people.

Instead she says what actually happened is probably closer to the much milder 1957 or 1968 pandemics.

"For me, the best health news of the previous decade is the fact that the long overdue influenza pandemic has been so moderate in its impact ... The virus did not mutate to a more virulent form. ... The vaccine proved safe and a close match with circulating virus. Things could have gone wrong in any of these areas," she said.

WHO SAYS H1N1 SWINE FLU PANDEMIC NOT OVER

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