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The alert
phase system developed by WHO in 2005 is a well reasoned graded assessment
of the global spread of an influenza virus. However, the deletion of “enormous
numbers of deaths and illness”
from the definition of an influenza pandemic in May, 2009 enabled WHO to
declare the
2009 H1H1 swine
influenza epidemics in Mexico and the USA as an
influenza
pandemic and a public health emergency of international concern, regardless
of whether the new virus may
cause enormous numbers of deaths and illness!
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