LOL...and that too.
This was from today of reuters.
GENEVA (Reuters) - No evidence has yet emerged that suggests the World Health Organization should raise its pandemic alert to the highest level due to a swine flu outbreak, a senior WHO official said on Thursday. Keiji Fukuda, acting WHO assistant director-general, told reporters that Switzerland’s Roche Holding AG has indicated it was stepping up production of its antiviral Tamiflu to deal with the infection.
Known generically as oseltamivir, the drug has proven effective against the new strain.
Fukuda said the United Nations agency has released some of its own Tamiflu stockpiles to the developing countries deemed most in need, including Mexico.
On Wednesday, the WHO raised its pandemic alert level to Phase 5, indicating a global outbreak was imminent. That is a notch below the agency’s highest alert level.
“Today that evidence holds steady,” Fukuda told reporters.
The new H1N1 strain first emerged in Mexico and has killed up to 176 people there, according to Mexican authorities.
WHO laboratories have so far identified a smaller number of infections in Mexico. Fukuda said the WHO has confirmed 97 cases in Mexico and seven deaths, and 236 total infections worldwide