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Panama, April 27 (EFE) .- The Office of the Americas laFederacion International Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), based in Panama, created a special committee to prepararseen where the outbreak of swine flu spreads in Mexico to another country in the region, the humanitarian agency reported today.

continental coordinator of health in America from the IFRC, JulieHoare told Efe that the committee is composed of personnel from the Regional OFFICE USE Americas and from Mexico, Central America yPanama.

The committee is in the process of compiling the sociedadesnacionales of the Red Cross in the region about their level of preparedness, the steps they are taking and work decoordinacion engaged with Governments, Ministries of Health and other partners in this situation.

We are monitoring the situation, recopilandoinformacion and are requesting information from each national society of Red Lacruz to plan a care plan, indicoHoare.

He added that following the confirmed outbreaks of infection in Mexico, USA and suspected cases in Canada and other countries have queprepararnos the possibility to increase the commemorative confirmed cases in the area.

It has also created a special committee to support national lassociedades of the Red Cross worldwide, he said.

The World Health Organization (WHO), recalled Hoare, hadeclarado status as a public health emergency, and now all organizations are on alert and preparing Encas that the scene switches to an epidemic or a pandemic, Do not know yet, he said.

The question is prepared to give an answer to biencoordinada local, regional and continental levels, said Hoare.

In the case of Mexico, which likely killed by gripeporcina rose to 149, the Red Cross in this country has mobilized volunteers from Sureda 486 subsidiaries, which are in high alertay are working closely with state authorities paralimitar transmission of influenza, he said.

Hoare said that since the Office of the Americas is estanreforzando other representations the IFRC, as Buenos Aires, Lima, Port of Spain and Santo Domingo, tengantodos for the supplies needed to help their societies nacionalesde Red Cross.

The International Federation of the agency, stressed , cadapais has a network of volunteers in communities, which is encapacidad moving very quickly to provide informacioncorrecta and prevention to communities.

He also said that the IFRC is working on a depreparacion pandemics in the past two years, experience queutilizara a possible increase in the current situation. EFE