The World Health Organization has just announced that the pandemic warning is now raised to level 5.

Key points

Level 5 means that all countries should now employ all their pandemic procedures.

As a brand new flu varient no one has immunity

It is still being investigated why affluent countries only have mild cases at this time and poor countries are experiencing severe disease.

The mild cases are no different from the normal seasonal flu which still infect millions and end the lives of nearly 32,000 people in the US alone.

IT is common for the flu virus to mutate as it propogates globaly.

Negotiations with manufactures of antivirals are ongoing to make more medicine.



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Admin if in your opinion a new thread is needed for new ongoing flu facts without the potentially valuable speculative insights which unfortunately lead to argumentative distraction as in this obit thread, please consider making the above announcment a new thread in which exclusively CDC WHO NIH HLS and HSS news flashes may be added for concise ongoing news.

The obit flu thread can be used for peroanl experiences?


PS
June to October will be a time period of most concern followed by another spike as much as one year from now due to mutations and the normal evolution of flu strains.