WHO? RAISED SWINE FLU THREAT TO LEVEL 5!
Follow the herd! WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization prepared to raise the pandemic threat level from swine flu to phase 5 on Wednesday as the virus spread and killed the first person outside Mexico , a toddler in Texas. "Things are moving fast," a WHO? source told Reuters. Nearly a week after the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, first emerged in California and Texas and was found to have caused deaths in Mexico, Spain reported the first case in Europe of swine flu in a person who had not been to Mexico, illustrating the danger of person-to-person transmission. Phase 5 is the WHO's second highest level of warning that a pandemic, or global outbreak of a serious new illness, is imminent. (its over people, end of world) "It is clear that the virus is spreading and we don't see evidence of it slowing down at this point," Dr. Keiji Fukuda, WHO acting assistant director-gener