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Friday, 12 June 2009 |
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W.H.O. Raises Alert Level as Flu Spreads to 74 Countries
'The World health Organisation raised its alert on swine flu to the highest level on Thursday, in its first designation of a global pandemic in 41 years. Calling further spread of the virus “inevitable,” the organization’s director general, Margaret Chan, said, “We are at the earliest days of a global pandemic.” The new H1N1 strain, she said, is “spreading easily from one person to another, and from one country to another” in more than one region of the world.'
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