WHO: 114 Swine Flu cases worldwide

Switzerland: Following verification processes in World Health Organization labs, Acting WHO Deputy Director General Keiji Fukuda announced on Wednesday there are 114 confirmed cases of swine flu worldwide, a figure lower than reported by individual countries.

At least 26 cases have been verified by WHO in Mexico, including seven deaths, besides 64 infected people and one death in the United States; 13 infected people in Canada; three people infected in New Zealand; four infected people in Spain; two infected people in Britain and another two in Israel.

A third emergency meeting has been called by WHO to consider whether to raise the epidemic alert to an imminent pandemic risk.

In the first meeting Saturday, WHO decided to increase the alert level to phase three, and in a second meeting on Monday experts agreed to decree phase four, of a maximum of six.

Specialists are still trying to determine the degree of danger of the A/H1N1 virus causing swine flu, which has caused the greater number of deaths in Mexico, considered the epicenter of the infection. Geneva, Prensa Latina