Swine Flu Tops Agenda at Annual World Health Assembly Meeting
By VOA News
18 May 2009
The World Health Organization's annual assembly opened Monday in Geneva, where the new strain of H1N1 swine flu tops the agenda.
Public health officials plan to discuss the production of a vaccine to slow the spread of the virus. The WHO says 39 countries have reported 8,480 cases of the disease.
Japanese officials said Monday they had confirmed 92 cases of swine flu. Most of those infected in Japan are high school and college students from the Osaka and Hyogo regions.
Officials in New York reported the death Sunday of a school assistant principal who had been hospitalized since Wednesday with swine flu. He is the sixth person in the United States to die from the virus.
Health officials in Chile have confirmed that country's first two cases of the virus.
The two women were hospitalized with flu symptoms after arriving in Chile on a flight from the Dominican Republic.
In China, officials confirmed the third mainland case of the new virus, and a separate case in Hong Kong.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.
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