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The WHO is set to announce officially that novel H1N1 or swine flu has reached official pandemic status. That is a phase six. This is the first influenza pandemic since the Hong Kong flu of 1968.

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The Associated Press is reporting that the World Health Organization will most likely declare the swine flu / novel H1N1 outbreak a pandemic, alert level six, tomorrow. This will be about eight weeks into the outbreak, with WHO reporting cases in 73 nations.