UN health agency gives up on counting swine flu | Alrroya

UN health agency gives up on counting swine flu

Monday, 20 July 2009  at  09:20, AP
The World Health Organization (WHO) says it will stop counting individual cases of swine flu.

Tracking individual swine flu cases is too overwhelming for countries where the virus is spreading widely, the agency says in a statement. WHO will no longer issue global totals of swine flu cases, although it will continue to track the global epidemic.

WHO had reported nearly 95,000 cases including 429 deaths worldwide. But the numbers are outdated, with Britain estimating it had 55,000 new cases last week alone.








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