WHO: 'Too early' to say pandemic over

Today the only piece of news about the swine flu is the WHO press conference in Geneva. Italian news media have covereved the talk of Dr Keiji Fukuda, Special Adviser to the Director-General on Pandemic Influenza. "Now we are about 8 months into the pandemic and one of the common questions coming to us is, that is the pandemic over, is it time to call it, and really the answer is, that it is still too early to make such a call." said Fukuda. In Italy the flu outbreak has already peaked, thus people expect the WHO to say that pandemic has ended.
Newspapers covered also the reason, according to Dr. Fukuda,to not call the pandemic over. The WHO expert said that the flu activity is still high in parts of Europe such as France and Switzerland, in the Czech Republic, and in parts of central Asia such as Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and in Russia. So it's to early.
Instead there was nothing about the second reason given by Dr Fukuda. "It is clear in some parts of the world, such as North America and in some parts of Europe, we have seen that the pandemic activity for now, has clearly peaked and is on the way down." said Fukuda "But the peaking has occurred extraordinarily early for influenza and we still have several months for winter to go and one of the big questions which is still before us is whether we expect to see yet another wave of activity occur or perhaps at late winter or in the early spring months".