With most people breathing easier about H1N1 flu, the World Health Organisation finds itself in a bind about how to respond to the continuing spread of the virus whose effects have proved mainly mild.
The United Nations agency’s guidelines state that as soon as the virus starts spreading freely in two …

For health authorities worldwide, the question remained how far the virus would spread and how serious would it be. The WHO remained at pandemic alert level 5, meaning a pandemic is imminent.
“If it spreads around the world you will see hundreds of millions of people get infected,” the WHO’s Dr. …