WHO says H1N1 Flu Pandemic Continues

Several Canadian provinces of Ontario, the following declaration of Influenza A (H1N1) vaccination program failed in their areas.

WHO Emergency Planning Committee, consisting of 15 external advisers, said it was a precondition for countries to maintain vigilance on the pandemic, including the necessary public health measures for disease control and surveillance, WHO Director General Margaret Chan in a statement.

Health officials and experts say that the causes of low rates of vaccination was the lack of transfer of the risk of a pandemic and safety shots, the priority guidelines are not followed by some provinces and the federal government's inability to inform the provincial weekly H1N1 vaccine supply.

Chan said that the pandemic influenza activity is expected to continue, and the committee will meet again in mid-July to review the status of the outbreak back data from the winter flu season in the southern hemisphere was available.

The head of the World Health Organization says the swine flu is still a pandemic, although the period of most intense activity seems to have passed.WHO Director Margaret Chan said a decision to declare the global epidemic of H1N1 over will be taken up again in mid-July.

The alarm level is now at 6 stage - the highest - but can be moved to "post-peak" or "post-pandemic" phase circulation of the virus continues to fall.