GENEVA (Reuters) - A top World Health Organisation official said on Wednesday a swine flu outbreak showed clear signs of spreading across the world and there was no indication it was slowing down.
Keiji Fukuda, WHO acting assistant director-general, said researchers on the ground were seeing the infection spread from person-to-person and he repeated that eating pork does not constitute a risk for the virus.
"It is clear that the virus is spreading and we don't see evidence of it slowing down at this point," he told reporters.
Nearly a week after the threat emerged in Mexico, where up to 159 people have died, a U.S. official confirmed on Wednesday that a 23-month-old boy had died in Texas, the state bordering Mexico. A health official said the baby was a resident of Mexico.
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