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WHO: 'Prepare for pandemic'

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The head of the World Health Organisation's Global Influenza Programme, Dr Keiji Fukuda, has said countries should prepare for the possibility of a swine flu pandemic.

New cases of the deadly swine flu virus have been confirmed as far afield as New Zealand and Israel, as the UN warns it cannot be contained.

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