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No evidence to raise pandemic alert level: WHO
Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:29pm EDT
UPDATE 2-No evidence to raise pandemic alert level-WHO
1:24pm EDT
By Jonathan Lynn
GENEVA (Reuters) - No evidence has yet emerged that suggests the World Health Organization (WHO) 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 Switzerland's Roche Holding AG has indicated it was stepping up production of its antiviral Tamiflu to deal with the infection.
"The only security we have is our ability to adapt."
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.
Moving to phase 6 would require confirmation that the virus is spreading from human to human in a sustained way in a country in another region besides North America.
"The only security we have is our ability to adapt."
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