Flu Experts Discuss Severity Scale for WHO's Phase 6 June 6, 2009

By Stephanie Nebehay

Flu experts held emergency talks to assess introducing a severity scale into the World Health Organization's top level of pandemic alert and to discuss the spread of the H1N1 virus, officials said.

WHO Director-General Margaret Chan called the emergency committee meeting, but no decision is expected on crossing the threshold to the highest phase, a spokeswoman said.

"The agenda is not to decide on phase 6, I would like to stress this," WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib told a news briefing in Geneva.

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