Swine Flu: World Health Organisation raises alert level to four
The World Health Organization has raised its alert level to four - just two notches below 'pandemic' level - for the swine flu after senior health officials said that the virus could not longer contained.
The probable death toll from the flu has risen to 152 from 103 overnight in Mexico, and there have been other isolate places across the world, although it is only in Mexico that there have been deaths
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