MisoFukuda, the WHO's assistant director-general for health...

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Fukuda, the WHO's assistant director-general for health security and the environment

Fukuda just came out with this comment. Cidrap a good site for info.

''Fukuda cautioned that even if swine flu activity subsides sometime soon, it will be at least several months before experts can conclude that a pandemic won't happen. "It's very hard to know when something like this disappears. I don't think we'll be able to conclude that in the next few weeks."

He also warned not to forget how the great pandemic of 1918-19 unfolded. "It also started out as a relatively mild spread of illness that really wasn't much noted in most places, but then it became a very severe pandemic in the fall," he said. ''


http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/swineflu/news/apr2809briefings.html