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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10200

26 August 2010
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/health
WHO working to bring transparency on handling of A(H1N1) flu and confirms end of pandemic

Brussels, 25/08/2010 (Agence Europe) - On 10 August, the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially announced that the A(H1N1) flu pandemic was over. Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Dr Marc Sprenger said that the pandemic had shown that “Europe can cope with a major health crisis”. It had also revealed gaps, for example, with regard to surveillance of severe disease in hospitals, agreed definitions of severity of a pandemic, epidemiological...

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