WHO to keep world on pandemic level 6 emergency for another year: new pandemic by 2015 says WHO-linked flu expert

Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 November 2009 16:54 Wednesday, 18 November 2009 15:33

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Professor John Oxford, virology expert at Barts and the London, said he thought that WHO plans to maintain the current pandemic alert level six – the highest level in the world -- for at least another year after meeting WHO officials.

Pandemic level 6 gives WHO extraordinary powers over a nation’s health and military services under the International Health Regulations 2005 signed by 193 countries. WHO can also order forced vaccination and quarantine.

In addition, he said that he believed there would be a „new pandemic soon“ before 2015 and that governments should be more vigilant of their own citizens (bloggers?, alternative media?), especially their scientists working with potential bio-warfare micro-organisms.

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