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New virus is not "swine flu", Paris-based health organization says 
The virus currently circulating in Mexico and the United States and which has killed at least 20 people is not swine flu, the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said Monday.
"The virus has not been isolated in animals to date. Therefore, it is not justified to name this disease swine flu," the OIE said in a press statement.
The virus "includes in its characteristics swine, avian and human virus components," the OIE said, and urged that it be called "North American influenza," after its geographic origin.
The OIE said it was "urgent" that scientific research be carried out to determine the susceptibility of animals to what it said was a "new virus."
If animals were susceptible, "virus circulation could worsen the regional and global situation for public health," the organization said.
The virus currently circulating in Mexico and the United States and which has killed at least 20 people is not swine flu, the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said Monday.
"The virus has not been isolated in animals to date. Therefore, it is not justified to name this disease swine flu," the OIE said in a press statement.
The virus "includes in its characteristics swine, avian and human virus components," the OIE said, and urged that it be called "North American influenza," after its geographic origin.
The OIE said it was "urgent" that scientific research be carried out to determine the susceptibility of animals to what it said was a "new virus."
If animals were susceptible, "virus circulation could worsen the regional and global situation for public health," the organization said.
The World Health Organization plans to raise its pandemic alert to an unprecedented level today, saying that swine flu is spreading
this is a serious matter. even Sri Lankan health authorities have instructed the airport officials to b vigilant abt this matter!
Poor states may need aid for swine flu -UN's Ban
The world must make sure that poorer countries hit hard by other crises do not have to bear the brunt of any possible swine flu pandemic, U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday. "The swine flu outbreak shows yet again that, in our interconnected world, no nation can deal with threats of such dimension on its own," Ban told reporters.
He added that if the swine flu outbreak becomes a pandemic, global solidarity will be crucial.
"Poorer nations are especially vulnerable," he said. "They have been hit hard by other crises this year -- food, energy, the global economy, climate change. We must ensure that they are not also hit disproportionately hard by a potential health crisis." He said that the World Bank and other U.N. development and humanitarian agencies would "mobilize to ensure that countries needing additional financial resources to combat an epidemic will have them." Ban said he was in constant contact with the head of the U.N. World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, about the outbreak.
The world must make sure that poorer countries hit hard by other crises do not have to bear the brunt of any possible swine flu pandemic, U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday. "The swine flu outbreak shows yet again that, in our interconnected world, no nation can deal with threats of such dimension on its own," Ban told reporters.
He added that if the swine flu outbreak becomes a pandemic, global solidarity will be crucial.
"Poorer nations are especially vulnerable," he said. "They have been hit hard by other crises this year -- food, energy, the global economy, climate change. We must ensure that they are not also hit disproportionately hard by a potential health crisis." He said that the World Bank and other U.N. development and humanitarian agencies would "mobilize to ensure that countries needing additional financial resources to combat an epidemic will have them." Ban said he was in constant contact with the head of the U.N. World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, about the outbreak.
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