WHO warns global A/H1N1 flu pandemic in early stages

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The World Health Organization has warned that the global A/H1N1 flu pandemic is still in its early stages. It says reports of over 100,000 infections in England alone last week are plausible.

Keiji Fukuda, right, Assistant Director-General for Health Security  and Environment at the World Health Organization (WHO) leaves his  office at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, with an  assistant on Friday, July 24, 2009. Fukuda says first the swine  flu vaccines should be available in September and October but  there must be no doubt over the safety of the vaccines before  they are given to the public.

The WHO's Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment said on Friday, given the size of the world's population, the A/H1-N1 flu is likely to spread for some time.

Dr. Keiji Fukuda, said, "What WHO has been reporting from the beginning is laboratory confirmed cases. And so we've always known that this is a smaller group of the total number of cases."