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13:48 Society LATEST NEWS
WHO postponed one more day decision on whether to raise the pandemic alert
EFEGinebra News, June 2 (EFE) .- The World Health Organization (WHO), postponed until tomorrow announcing the decision on lifting or maintaining alertness for influenza pandemic, which held nearly a year ago.
The final word rests with the health agency's director general, Margaret Chan, who has chosen to allow time for reflection before disclose whether or not it endorses the recommendation he received from a group of scientists who analyzed the evolution yesterday of the pandemic.
A WHO source confirmed to Efe that the CEO will report tomorrow, Thursday, its decision, although last night said it would be reported today.
The aforementioned scientists, who make up the so-called Emergency Committee of WHO, have been conveyed his conclusions to Chan, who now has the responsibility to endorse or not.
The recommendations of this Committee have a high scientific value and is given almost for granted that the general manager for endorsement, although the delay in announcing his decision makes planning the shadow of doubt.
The H1N1 virus was discovered in April last year in North America and became the first pandemic of the twenty-first century due to its rapid geographic spread and generated fears that a virus because it is unknown and likely to mutate.
It also established that the risk groups were not the usual (old), but younger age groups (including health), pregnant women and people with chronic health problems.
However, as months passed, confirming that, overall, the virus had moderate consequences and that their mortality rate was even less than that of seasonal flu.
The H1N1 virus has resulted in a little over thirteen months some 18,000 deaths confirmed by laboratory tests, against the 500,000 annual deaths attributed to seasonal influenza.
Despite these findings, WHO pandemic alert kept saying it was necessary to extend preventive measures while observing the evolution of the virus and possible dangerous mutations were discarded.
The virus in question is predominantly circulated worldwide displacing the viral strain of seasonal influenza.
Therefore, there is the possibility that given that the flu season this year will begin shortly at the southern hemisphere, scientists deem appropriate to observe how the virus evolves in this new stage before lifting the declaration of a pandemic.
This situation led to the adoption of emergency measures around the world to control the rate of spread of disease, an elusive goal against the flow of international travel.
In this regard, WHO recommended always to keep open air communications
Spanish-English translation
13:48 Society LATEST NEWS
WHO postponed one more day decision on whether to raise the pandemic alert
EFEGinebra News, June 2 (EFE) .- The World Health Organization (WHO), postponed until tomorrow announcing the decision on lifting or maintaining alertness for influenza pandemic, which held nearly a year ago.
The final word rests with the health agency's director general, Margaret Chan, who has chosen to allow time for reflection before disclose whether or not it endorses the recommendation he received from a group of scientists who analyzed the evolution yesterday of the pandemic.
A WHO source confirmed to Efe that the CEO will report tomorrow, Thursday, its decision, although last night said it would be reported today.
The aforementioned scientists, who make up the so-called Emergency Committee of WHO, have been conveyed his conclusions to Chan, who now has the responsibility to endorse or not.
The recommendations of this Committee have a high scientific value and is given almost for granted that the general manager for endorsement, although the delay in announcing his decision makes planning the shadow of doubt.
The H1N1 virus was discovered in April last year in North America and became the first pandemic of the twenty-first century due to its rapid geographic spread and generated fears that a virus because it is unknown and likely to mutate.
It also established that the risk groups were not the usual (old), but younger age groups (including health), pregnant women and people with chronic health problems.
However, as months passed, confirming that, overall, the virus had moderate consequences and that their mortality rate was even less than that of seasonal flu.
The H1N1 virus has resulted in a little over thirteen months some 18,000 deaths confirmed by laboratory tests, against the 500,000 annual deaths attributed to seasonal influenza.
Despite these findings, WHO pandemic alert kept saying it was necessary to extend preventive measures while observing the evolution of the virus and possible dangerous mutations were discarded.
The virus in question is predominantly circulated worldwide displacing the viral strain of seasonal influenza.
Therefore, there is the possibility that given that the flu season this year will begin shortly at the southern hemisphere, scientists deem appropriate to observe how the virus evolves in this new stage before lifting the declaration of a pandemic.
This situation led to the adoption of emergency measures around the world to control the rate of spread of disease, an elusive goal against the flow of international travel.
In this regard, WHO recommended always to keep open air communications
