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Flu death puts focus on UK flu strategy (Guardian Unlimited)
The first UK death from swine flu, just days after a global pandemic was declared, will substantially increase the pressure on the public health authorities and the government to be seen to be coping with the rapidly-spreading virus. When the World Health Organisation's director general, Margaret Chan, on Thursday last week finally declared that we were indeed in the grip of a global pandemic, ...