*Cases reported by The World Health Organization (WHO) are as of March 21, 2010
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WHO plans an external review
With an internal review already underway, the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) will also call on a group of about 30 outside experts to review its response to the H1N1 pandemic outbreak. Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's top flu official said that the assessment will “address many of the questions which are being raised now." Among the issues expected to come before the group will be the appropriateness of the term “pandemic” for what turned out be a relatively mild disease, the role a disease’s severity plays in the WHO’s assessment of an outbreak, and its movement through the phases of its pandemic alert scale. The expert group of will hold a number of meetings over the next year starting on April 12, and present its findings to the WHO’s Director General. CBC News
H1N1 activity resurgence in tropical-zone Americas
According to the World Health Organization, H1N1 virus transmissions in Central and South America may be on the rise. Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, and parts of Brazil have reported increasing pandemic flu detections over the past few weeks. Mexico is seeing more influenza-like illnesses and severe acute respiratory infections, but it's not clear if pandemic flu is the cause. WHO Pandemic H1N1 Weekly Update
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