By James Pethokoukis
Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:58pm EDT
GENEVA, June 11 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization declared an influenza pandemic on Thursday and advised governments to prepare for a long-term battle against an unstoppable new flu virus.
The United Nations agency raised its pandemic flu alert to phase 6 on a six-point scale, indicating the first influenza pandemic since 1968 is under way.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Asian governments get advance notice of WHO plans to declare swine flu pandemic
BANGKOK — Asia prepared for even tighter swine flu controls Thursday as countries said they had received advance notice from the World Health Organization that it was planning to declare the first global flu pandemic in more than four decades.
Health ministries in Thailand and Indonesia said an email alert from WHO advised them that a pandemic would be declared as early as midnight local time.
"We are ready, because we have the experience with bird flu," Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari told reporters. "The Health Ministry is on the highest alert, and people need not panic. We have sent a circular to all hospitals to prepare themselves."
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Swine Flu Pandemic in the Philippines
Health ministries in Thailand and Indonesia said an email alert from WHO advised them that a pandemic would be declared as early as midnight local time.
"We are ready, because we have the experience with bird flu," Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari told reporters. "The Health Ministry is on the highest alert, and people need not panic. We have sent a circular to all hospitals to prepare themselves."
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Swine Flu Pandemic in the Philippines
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
3 swine flu cases found in Vietnam; Philippines total hits 21
By Susan Cunningham, June 1, 3:13 PM, www.examiner.com.
Vietnam's first three swine flu victims, all now hospitalized in Saigon, recently returned from the United States. The latest are a Vietnamese-American and her nine-year-old son.
The number of cases in the Philippines hit 21 on Monday. The country has the region's largest number of people infected with the human-to-human-borne virus, more accurately called H1N1. All but one are Filipinos and most of them had recently visited North America.
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Vietnam's first three swine flu victims, all now hospitalized in Saigon, recently returned from the United States. The latest are a Vietnamese-American and her nine-year-old son.
The number of cases in the Philippines hit 21 on Monday. The country has the region's largest number of people infected with the human-to-human-borne virus, more accurately called H1N1. All but one are Filipinos and most of them had recently visited North America.
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