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UK 'well prepared' for swine flu

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A girl, thought to be six years old, has died at Birmingham Children's Hospital after contracting swine flu. Justine Roberts, co-founder of the website Mumsnet and Dr Richard Jarvis, chairman of the BMA's public health committee, discuss doctor's warnings that throwing "swine flu parties" in an attempt to get immunity against the virus while in a fairly mild form could be dangerous.

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