World Health Organization calls emergency meeting on swine flu

The World Health Organization is calling a third emergency meeting of its flu experts in response to a spike in swine flu cases. The panel meeting today will discuss the current alert level - at phase 4, two levels below the threshold for a full pandemic outbreak.

In response to the panel's earlier advice, the United Nations' agency declared the outbreak an international public health emergency and raised its alert level, meaning the risk of a global outbreak has jumped.

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