Swine Flu Watch: WHO stops H1N1 tally; Argentina declares emergency
>>WHO stops giving global swine flu tally
Swine flu is moving around the globe at “unprecedented speed,” the World Health Organisation said Friday, as it stopped giving figures on the numbers affected worldwide.
The WHO said in an information note on its website Friday that it would focus on regular updates from newly affected countries, in order to keep track of the global progress of the new influenza A(H1N1) pandemic.
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The agency said the counting of all individual cases was no longer essential to assess the risk from swine flu, so it was best to watch the virus’s appearance in new territories.
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>>Argentina declares emergency after flu found in pigs
Argentina’s government declared on Friday a national sanitary emergency due to the presence of the new H1N1 flu virus in pigs.
Earlier this month, animal health officials said workers at a pig farm in Buenos Aires province were suspected of having passed the new strain onto the animals.
Source: here.
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