Saturday, May 23, 2009
WHO Considers Revising Definition of "Pandemic" : ScienceInsider
Responding to mounting confusion, the World Health Organization (WHO) has sent the definition of a full-scale, phase 6 influenza “pandemic” to the rewrite desk. But no formal revisions have been made yet, leaving the old definition in place, and that says a phase 6 alert should be triggered if two regions of the world have sustained community spread in humans of an animal or animal-human hybrid of a flu virus.
ScienceInsider: WHO Considers Revising Definition of "Pandemic"
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