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The director general of the WHO, Margaret Chan, told a Russian news agency on Thursday, that the H1N1/A virus causing the pandemic swine flu, has become “stable’ for the time being. She also mentioned that the virus has to be monitored in a more careful manner now.
Chan said that the virus currently is not undergoing any mutations. This information was give by Chan after having a meeting with Tatiana Golikova, The Health and Social Development Minister of Russia.
But she also emphasized the necessity of the close monitoring required for the spread of H1N1/A virus. She also mentioned that the nature of the virus is highly unpredictable.
Very soon after the virus came into existence in April, the health experts had a fear that the H1N1/A virus has the capability of mutating into a virus which is contagious like swine flu and virulent like avian flu.
Swine Flu had been declared as a pandemic by the WHO earlier in June. The last updates which have been received on Wednesday confirms 55, 867 infected cases on a worldwide level which is spread across 109 countries. The death toll from this flu is 238.
