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Health Interview Swine flu

“We aren’t in the pandemic phase yet with swine flu”

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Published 28 April, 2009, 21:27

The fact that the virus can travel from human to human doesn’t mean that a pandemic is inevitable, Tatyana Kolpakova from the World Health Organisation’s office in Russia said.

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