WHO Let the Swine Out

In Japan, the number of swine flu cases hits 135 as 75 people report new infections.  Over 1,000 schools were closed near Osaka and Kobe to stop the outbreak. 

World Health Organization officials, meeting in Geneva for a week-long meeting of international health ministers’ Monday, said they were monitoring the situation in Japan. A W.H.O. spokesman, Dick Thompson, said there was still insufficient evidence that the disease was spreading in a sustained way among communities outside of North America, which would be required for the organization to raise its pandemic alert level to 6, the highest level.