MSM: WHO ‘set to declare flu pandemic’

(BBC) – UN health officials are expected to declare the first global flu pandemic in 40 years, after holding emergency talks on the swine flu crisis.

MSM: W.H.O. may raise pandemic threat level over swine flu

(Reuters) – The World Health Organisation could raise its pandemic alert level to phase 4 or even to phase 5 — indicating a deadly swine flu was spreading significantly among humans, a WHO spokesman said on Monday.

Mexican Swine Flu Pandemic Risk

Disease trackers are trying to determine whether a previously unseen strain of influenza in the U.S. is related to more than 130 cases of severe respiratory illness in Mexico and may spark a pandemic.

World Health Organization Confirms Swine Flu Outbreak in U.S.

GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) voiced concern today at a confirmed outbreak of swine flu in the United States and what it called more than 800 human “influenza-like” cases in Mexico, including about 60 deaths.

MSM: Baxter Sent Bird Flu Virus to European Labs by Error

Baxter International Inc. in Austria unintentionally contaminated samples with the bird flu virus that were used in laboratories in three neighboring countries, raising concern about the potential spread of the deadly disease.