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WHO Director-General Margaret Chan made the decision Wednesday to raise the alert level from phase 4.
"It must be taken seriously because of the capacity to spread to every country in the world," Chan said. "It really is all of humanity that is under threat in a pandemic."...
WHO's Keiji Fukuda said so far "all the viruses identified from the cases from a number of different countries all look to be remarkably similar."
He said it was clear that the virus is spreading. "We don't see any evidence that it is slowing down at this point," he said...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry issued a disaster declaration, and state officials are postponing all public high school athletic and academic competitions until May 11 because of the swine flu outbreak...
Egypt slaughtered almost 300,000 pigs, and the central African nation of Gabon became the latest nation to ban pork imports, despite assurances that swine flu was not related to eating pork. This outbreak is different from avian influenza in that in avian influenza, people were getting infected directly from birds, Fukuda said. "
People are not getting sick from pigs. This is a virus that is being transmitted from person to person. The eating of pork meat does not pose a danger to people," he said.
