Please Read, WHO says Pandemic is Imminent !!!!........
~Wednesday 4-29-09~ update directly from CNN news source and quote," WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The World Health Organization raised the influenza epidemic level from 4 to 5 on Wednesday, signaling that a pandemic is imminent, and urged countries to implement their pandemic plans.
Patients wait at a hospital Wednesday in Mexico City. The swine flu outbreak began in Mexico.
The announcement came as the number of people infected with swine flu increased rapidly across the world Wednesday, and health officials scrambled to get more information about the virus -- which has no vaccine.
"It's a virus that we've never seen before," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
"There's no background immunity in the population, and it is spreading from human to human, all of which has the potential for a pandemic."
Germany and Austria on Wednesday became the latest European countries to report swine flu, while the number of cases increased in the United Kingdom and Spain.
There are 132 confirmed cases in 11 countries, the majority in the United States, according to the WHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those figures include seven deaths in Mexico and one in the United States.
The virus has been reported in 10 states, and the number of people infected with the 2009 H1N1 influenza strain grew to 91 in the U.S., the CDC said Wednesday. That number includes the first U.S. swine flu fatality: a 22-month-old child from Mexico who died of the illness Monday at a Houston, Texas, hospital."" and unquote.........
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