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“We aren’t in the pandemic phase yet with swine flu”
Published: 28 April, 2009, 21:27
TAGS: Health, Interview, SciTech, Swine flu
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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