WHO Says Pandemic Determinations Can Be Made Without 'Evidence Of Illness'

"Evidence of illness is not required" to trigger international pandemic reporting, WHO declares.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says evidence that a person is actually sick is not required for a "laboratory-confirmed" human influenza infection with "the potential to cause a pandemic" to trigger mandatory international reporting.

“Evidence of illness is not required for this report,” WHO states in its latest Influenza at the Human-Animal Interfa…