Was the first government program against the swine flu ran by Jonas Salk?
By early Tuesday, the swine flu outbreak in Mexico was suspected in 152 deaths and more than 1,600 illnesses, its health minister told reporters. So far, at least 113 cases have been confirmed worldwide, including 64 in the United States; six in Canada; 11 in New Zealand and two each in Spain the United Kingdom and Israel. None has yet resulted in death. With at least 11 other countries suspecting infections, the World Health Organization on Monday raised its alert level from three to four on its six-level scale. Read what steps countries are taking The move means the U.N. agency has determined that the virus is capable of significant human-to-human transmission — a major step toward a pandemic, but not necessarily inevitable, Dr. Keiji Fukuda said.
Governments and health officials around the world continued to take steps Tuesday against the outbreak of swine flu that has killed scores of people in Mexico and spread to the U.S., Europe and possibly Asia. By early Tuesday, the swine flu outbreak in Mexico was suspected in 152 deaths and more than 1,600 illnesses, its health minister told reporters. So far, at least 113 cases have been confirmed worldwide, including 64 in the United States; six in Canada; 11 in New Zealand and two each in Spain the United Kingdom and Israel. None has yet resulted in death. With at least 11 other countries suspecting infections, the World Health Organization on Monday raised its alert level from three to four on its six-level scale. Read what steps countries are taking The move means the U.N. agency has determined that the virus is capable of significant human-to-human transmission — a major step toward a pandemic, but not necessarily inevitable, Dr. Keiji Fukuda said. “In this age of global travel,
