Alarming cases of swine flu across United States, Europe, Australia, South America, and to some extent in Asia has forced the World Health Organization to declared it as pandemic - first global flu epidemic in many years, precisely 41. Also, WHO has raised the warning level from 5 to 6 (moderate severity). By doing so, the drug makers will show urgency in producing more swine flu vaccines to combat this deadly infection, and also respective countries will allocate sufficient funds to combat the swine flu.
Many health experts feel that this decision could have taken much earlier, but unfortunately due to some political pressure around the globe this decision was delayed. Many countries had urged WHO not declare it as pandemic fearing the overall social and economic conditions will further deteriorate.
The last pandemic, the Honk Kong flu in 1968, had killed nearly 1 million people. Normally, flu viruses disappear in summer, but the swine flu is proving to be much more resilient. Hopefully, the swine flu will disappear once for all to prevent further damage.
© 2009 Zafarulla Khan
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