U.S. World Health Organization Assistant Director Keiji Fukuda attends a conference on swine flu in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, July 3, 2009. AP Photo logo AP Photo 4 months ago

U.S. World Health Organization Assistant Director Keiji Fukuda attends a conference on swine flu in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, July 3, 2009.

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  2. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko adjusts her mask, a precaution against flu, during a visit to a hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Russia and Slovakia have tightened their borders with Ukraine as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak. The European Union says it is coordinating closely with health experts in Ukraine to help it cope with a suspected swine flu outbreak.
  3. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko adjusts her mask, a precaution against flu, during a visit to a hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Russia and Slovakia have tightened their borders with Ukraine as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak. The European Union says it is coordinating closely with health experts in Ukraine to help it cope with a suspected swine flu outbreak.
  4. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko adjusts her mask, a precaution against flu, during a visit to a hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Russia and Slovakia have tightened their borders with Ukraine as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak. The European Union says it is coordinating closely with health experts in Ukraine to help it cope with a suspected swine flu outbreak.
  5. Wearing mask as a precaution against flu, taxi driver Andrei Melnichuk feeds pigeons in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Russia and Slovakia have tightened their borders with Ukraine as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak. The European Union says it is coordinating closely with health experts in Ukraine to help it cope with a suspected swine flu outbreak.
  6. Women wear masks as a precaution against flu in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. The death toll from flu has climbed to 71 since the outbreak struck last week in the western city of Ternopil, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said. Blood tests have yet to determine how many of these deaths were from the new and aggressive H1N1 strain. But the WHO said in a statement on Tuesday that most flu cases in Ukraine can be assumed to be H1N1, "as the pandemic virus has rapidly become the dominant influenza strain worldwide."
  7. A man adjusts his mask, a precaution against flu, while walking in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Russia and Slovakia have tightened their borders with Ukraine as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak. The European Union says it is coordinating closely with health experts in Ukraine to help it cope with a suspected swine flu outbreak.
  8. Commuters wear masks as a precaution against flu while riding a bus in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Russia and Slovakia have tightened their borders with Ukraine as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak. The European Union says it is coordinating closely with health experts in Ukraine to help it cope with a suspected swine flu outbreak.
  9. A woman looks out from a train car at the central railway terminal in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Russia and Slovakia tightened their borders with Ukraine on Tuesday as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak.
  10. A man talks to train attendants, all wearing anti-flu masks, at the central railway terminal in Kiev, Ukraine,Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Russia and Slovakia tightened their borders with Ukraine on Tuesday as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak.
  11. A couple in protective masks walk in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Russia and Slovakia tightened their borders with Ukraine on Tuesday as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak. In the western city of Lviv, the government has urged cafes, cinemas and theaters to close indefinitely, and roughly a third of the people in the streets on Tuesday wore surgical masks to avoid inhaling the virus.
  12. A nurse cares for a patient suspected of suffering from pneumonia at a hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Urging its citizens not to panic, Ukraine on Monday closed down all schools nationwide for a week to avoid the spread of swine flu and suggested that night clubs, cinemas and food markets in the west also shut down. The World Health Organization said Monday there was no evidence that Ukraine had a bad outbreak of swine flu but at the government's request it had sent a health team in to help the country cope.
  13. A patient suspected of suffering from pneumonia arrives at a hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Urging its citizens not to panic, Ukraine on Monday closed down all schools nationwide for a week to avoid the spread of swine flu and suggested that night clubs, cinemas and food markets in the west also shut down. The World Health Organization said Monday there was no evidence that Ukraine had a bad outbreak of swine flu but at the government's request it had sent a health team in to help the country cope.
  14. A patient suspected of suffering from pneumonia arrives at a hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Urging its citizens not to panic, Ukraine on Monday closed down all schools nationwide for a week to avoid the spread of swine flu and suggested that night clubs, cinemas and food markets in the west also shut down. The World Health Organization said Monday there was no evidence that Ukraine had a bad outbreak of swine flu but at the government's request it had sent a health team in to help the country cope.
  15. People wear anti-flu masks while walking in a street in Kiev, Ukraine,Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Russia and Slovakia tightened their borders with Ukraine on Tuesday as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak. The death toll from flu has climbed to 71 since the outbreak struck last week in the western city of Ternopil, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.
  16. A physician seen near a patient suspected of suffering from pneumonia at a hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Urging its citizens not to panic, Ukraine on Monday closed down all schools nationwide for a week to avoid the spread of swine flu and suggested that night clubs, cinemas and food markets in the west also shut down. The World Health Organization said Monday there was no evidence that Ukraine had a bad outbreak of swine flu but at the government's request it had sent a health team in to help the country cope.

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