WHO: THE GLOBAL SWINE FLU EPIDEMIC IS STILL IN ITS EARLY STAGES

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
30.07.2009 16:16 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Keiji Fukuda, WHO’s Assistant Director-General for
Health Security and Environment, said at WHO Geneva meeting that given
the size of the world’s population, the new H1N1 virus is likely to
spread for some time.

WHO earlier estimated that as many as 2 billion people could become
infected over the next two years.

"Even if we have hundreds of thousands of cases or a few millions of
cases … we’re relatively early in the pandemic," Fukuda said in an
interview at WHO’s headquarters in Geneva.

The global health agency stopped asking governments to report new
cases last week, saying the effort was too great now that the disease
has become so widespread in some countries.