The World Health Organization said Wednesday it is working to mathematically model the spread of swine flu in an attempt to better understand how the outbreak developed from a handful of cases to a global epidemic in less than two months.
WHO brought together over 20 independent experts beginning Wednesday for the three-day meeting in Geneva.
"They will be working together to describe and predict the behavior and impact of the pandemic, and demonstrate potential outcomes of proposed intervention efforts," spokeswoman Aphaluck Bhatiasevi told The Associated Press.
The meeting comes as it becomes clearer that actual case numbers may be far higher than the agency's tally of officially diagnosed infections.
According to WHO's latest update Wednesday, a total of 77,201 confirmed cases and 332 deaths have been reported in over 110 countries.
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