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Virus 'spread by people not pigs'

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World Health Organization acting Assistant Director General Keiji Fukuda has said that the swine flu virus is "moving from person to person" rather than being transmitted by pigs.

A 23-month-old Mexican child has died of swine flu in Texas - the first death from the virus outside Mexico, where it may have killed as many as 159 people.

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