The World Health Organization declared the swine flu a pandemic. The United Nations agency raised its pandemic flu alert to phase 6 on a six-point scale, indicating the first influenza pandemic since 1968 is under way.
The WHO is composed of 193 member countries of which eight are the most heavily hit: Australia, Britain, Canada, Chile, Japan, Mexico, Spain and the U.S.
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