GENEVA — The World Health Organization is calling a third emergency meeting of its flu experts in response to a spike in swine flu cases.

The panel meeting Wednesday will discuss the current alert level — at phase 4, two levels below the threshold for a full pandemic outbreak.

In response to the panel’s earlier advice, WHO declared the outbreak an international public health emergency and raised its pandemic alert level, meaning the risk of a global outbreak has jumped.

WHO spokesman Dick Thompson said the agency’s director-general Margaret Chan “has seen a jump in cases and she wants to have that evaluated by the outside experts.”

He says that does not automatically mean there will be a change in the pandemic alert level. This comes in addition to a WHO scientific review meeting, also on Wednesday.

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