World Health Organization Raises Swine Flu Alert
The best piece of advice to avoid getting any flu is WASH YOUR HANDS OFTEN.
By LIZ ROBBINS
Published: April 29, 2009
The World Health Organization raised the alert level of the fast-spreading swine flu virus on Wednesday afternoon, indicating that a “pandemic is imminent,” on the day that a Mexican toddler who had been hospitalized in Houston became the first person to die from the disease on United States soil.
Dr. Margaret Chan, the director general of the organization, said that the “phase 5” alert out of a possible 6 levels signified that at least two countries have spread the virus by human to human contact, and that the highest phase 6 was probably imminent.
“It is really all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic,” Dr. Chan said. “We do not have all the answers right now. But we will get them.”
April 29th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I was out and about yesterday and there was a woman ahead of me coughing away like crazy. You should of seen the faces on the people around her!