As governments braced for a global pandemic of the deadly swine flu today, world health officials tried to quell growing fears and the United States set up a lab in Mexico to help diagnose and test cases.
A day after upping its pandemic alert level, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said there was no evidence to suggest it should be raised to the maximum level of six.
Mexico has raised the number of deaths from the disease to 12 and said it had 260 confirmed cases of swine flu. A Mexican toddler also died during a visit to Texas.
But amid questions over why Mexico has been hit so hard compared to other countries, European ministers rejected a French proposal for an EU-wide ban on travel to the tourist hotspot as too excessive.
"We have to be careful, we have to exercise vigilance, we should not panic, we have to be prepared," EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou told an emergency meeting of health ministers in Luxembourg.
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I think that's a good advice from the EU Health Commissioner but to panic is a normal reaction. Also, the adage 'prevention is better than cure' should be applied in this situation. 8-)
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