The World Health Organziation (WH0) is expected to make a formal announcement today to raise the Pandemic Warning Level on H1N1 to Phase 6, it's highest alert. The decision to declare the first global pandemic in 41 years was reached after an emergency meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
In an Associated Press story, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the declaration will not effectively change their approach to H1N1.
"Our actions in the past month have been as if there was a pandemic in this country," Glen Nowak, a CDC spokesman, said today.
The U.S. government has already taken steps like increasing availability of flu-fighting medicines and authorizing $1 billion for the development of a new vaccine against the novel virus. In addition, new cases seem to be declining in many parts of the country, U.S. health officials say, as North America moves out of its traditional winter flu season."
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