You may have forgotten about the virus formerly known as swine flu, but it hasn’t gone away, according to the World Health Organization.
The agency is continuing its pandemic alert for 2009 H1N1 influenza, WHO chief Margaret Chan announced Thursday in a statement. There are still world regions, particularly in tropical regions such as the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, that have relatively low level of resurgence of cases.
But “the period of most intense pandemic activity appears likely to have passed for many parts of the world,” the statement said.
In July, a WHO committee will meet again to reassess the situation.
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I don’t believe that this much hyped flu was ever a threat to begin with and now that it is not in the news so much, the powers that be are going to say it is not gone yet because they have all that excess vaccine to get rid of, which probably didn’t help anyone too much either. I didn’t get a shot and I didn’t get the flu and I haven’t heard of too many others who got the shot and/or had the flu either.