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Posted Thu Jun 11 2009: from
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WHO set to declare first flu pandemic since 1968 http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1244729469
GENEVA (Reuters) -- The World Health Organization was poised on Thursday to declare that the new H1N1 virus has caused the first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years, health sources said on Thursday.
The move will trigger heightened health measures in the WHO's 193 member states as authorities brace for the worldwide spread of the virus that has so far caused mainly mild illness....
WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan was to hold a news conference on the outbreak at 1600 GMT.
Flu experts advising Chan, who met earlier on Thursday, were expected to recommend moving to the top phase 6 on the WHO's six-point scale, the sources said.
That would reflect the fact that the disease, widely known as swine flu, was spreading geographically, but not necessarily indicate how virulent it is.
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