It is too early to say that the swine flu pandemic has peaked in all parts of the world, the World Health Organisation's emergency committee said. "The Committee advised that it was premature to conclude that all parts of the world have experienced peak transmission of the H1N1 pandemic influenza," a spokesman said Tuesday, adding more "time and information ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Health experts will review the status of the H1N1 pandemic in a few weeks to decide whether it has peaked but it is already clear that it is less severe than previous outbreaks, the World Health Organization said. The WHO's emergency committee decided on Tuesday that it was premature to declare the pandemic, which was declared in ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The current H1N1 swine flu pandemic is relatively less severe than some other influenza outbreaks, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. "This pandemic appears to be on the less severe side of the spectrum of pandemics that we have seen in the 20th century," the United Nations health agency's top flu expert, Keiji Fukuda, told a ...