World Health Organization Raises Pandemic Alert Level

By News Staff

Posted April 29, 2009 6:22 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

WHO says the Phase 5 alert means there is sustained human-to-human spread in at least two countries and that global outbreak of the disease is imminent.

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