WHO to meet with vaccine makers as cases multiply

Top officials from the World Health Organization will meet with pharma executives tomorrow to get a better sense of how they could arrange for the production of a new swine flu vaccine. And officials from Japan and other countries will be using meetings this week to press for a new alert system that can help evaluate not only how fast a virus is spreading but also how dangerous it is. With fresh flu cases multiplying in Japan, observers say that the WHO is likely to raise the alert to phase six, its highest level. Report