# 3034
As I’ve pointed out several times in my recent blogs, the Swine Flu outbreak in Mexico has the potential to spread and become a serious global health problem, but it isn’t certain that will happen.
I’ve given several examples of `pandemics’ that failed to materialize, some even further advanced that the current situation.
We honestly don’t know how this outbreak is going to turn out.
But it does have the potential to become a pandemic. And the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, said exactly that this morning.
Swine flu 'has' pandemic potential
- By: AFP
- Published: 25/04/2009 at 09:29 PM
The outbreak of a new multi-strain swine flu virus transmitted from human to human that has killed up to 60 people in Mexico is a "serious situation'' with a "pandemic potential", the head of the World Health Organisation said Saturday.
"A new virus is responsible'' for the cases reported in Mexico and the United States, WHO Director General Margaret Chan said in a telephone press conference, adding: "It is a serious situation which needs to be closely followed.''
How the situation will evolve is "unpredictable,'' she said, urging other countries to "increase vigilance''.
"This virus has clearly a pandemic potential,'' she added
