WHO has raised the threat of a pandemic influenza pig.

World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday, April 27, raised the threat of a pandemic influenza pig. The situation with the spread of pig influenza, according to the WHO site, moved from third to fourth phase.

The fourth phase, according to WHO classification, means that the record of individual cases of transmission from man. However, the spread of influenza localized, indicating a poor adaptation of the virus to the existence of the human body. Pandemic - the sixth phase of the spread of influenza to WHO classification.

The last time the WHO declared pandemic influenza in 1968. Then, as a result of the so-called "Hong Kong flu" killed about a million people, reports Reuters.

As of the evening on April 27, in Mexico, was recorded 149 deaths from swine influenza. More than 40 cases of influenza pork (a kind of virus, H1N1) recorded in the United States. In Canada, confirmed six cases of pork flu in Britain - the two, as in Spain - one informs BBC News. Tourists returning from Mexico, hospitalized with suspected influenza pork in Israel, Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, Australia and New Zealand.

In Moscow the evening of April 27 in the hospital with fever was hospitalized 29-year-old passenger, a flight arrived from the capital of Mexico, with change in Paris. Passenger, Interfax reports with reference to the Office of Rospotrebnadzor in Moscow, was a provisional diagnosis of ARI. The final diagnosis of the girl will be given after all the tests.

The Consular Section of the Embassy of Russia in Mexico City, as it became known RIA Novosti on Monday evening, suspend its work "to clarify the circumstances of the spread of porcine influenza." The Consular Section has decided to close until May 4.