No meeting scheduled to review pandemic level - WHO

No meeting scheduled to review pandemic level - WHO

GENEVA, May 3 (Reuters)

The World Health Organisation's emergency committee has no meeting currently scheduled to review the global pandemic level, a WHO spokesman said on Sunday.

Last week the WHO increased its pandemic level two notches, from 3 to 5 on a 6-point scale. Asked if that level may be raised again to the top level, which would trigger a series of measures to help poor countries fight an outbreak, the spokesman said: "That is not very easy to predict.""We cannot lower our guard," he told a news briefing.

He also said that world trade in meat should not be restricted as a result of the outbreak.

(Reporting by Laura MacInnis, edited by Richard Meares) (For more Reuters swine flu coverage, please see: http:/www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/swineflu )