On the same day that the World Health Organisation raised the alert about swine flu back in April, Michelle Bachelet, Chile's president, gathered a committee of experts to discuss the threat.

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The paper cites the continued deferral of water charges as well as swine flu and civil service back-pay.

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Many of the region's pharmaceutical names were knocked back recently when swine flu vaccine orders were canceled by several European nations, so the latest news from the U.S. is "a short-term positive, " said Pope.

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V. and Ebola viruses, in the nineteen-eighties, and the swine-flu scare a few years back.

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In London, a hospital spokesman said a British Airways crew member developed flu-like symptoms during a flight from Mexico City and was tested for swine flu, but the results came back negative.

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President Calderon has stopped short of declaring "mission accomplished" against swine flu in Mexico, but the battle to lure visitors back to this country has begun.

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To get beyond Eggleston's Freudian couch, swine also need a 2-inch-thick layer of exterior fat along the belly and back.

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