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| WHO sets up swine flu probe |
| WHO sets up swine flu probe
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 12-April-2010
10:23:15 AM |
| Health experts on Monday began a World Health Organisation (WHO) probe into the controversial response to the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century, nearly a year after global alarm was raised over the new swine flu strain.
"We want to know what worked well. We want to know what went wrong and ideally why," World Health Organisation Director General Margaret Chan told the 29 health experts as they held their first meeting in Geneva.
"We want to know what can be done better and ideally how," she added.
The WHO formed the panel of experts following accusations that the agency-led international reaction to A (H1N1) influenza was overblown and may have been tainted by commercial interests.
The committee of experts from 28 countries will be chaired by Professor Harvey Fineberg, president of Washington's Institute of Medicine.
After the formative three-day meeting, the International Health Regulations review committee's work is expected to take about nine months, WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said.
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