My Word: Swine flu

Francine Bell asks... are you worried about the swine flu pandemic?

"Last month, the World Health Organisation gave it the highest pandemic warning level. And with 35,928 cases and 163 deaths, of course it's causing some anxiety.

But an estimated 1 billion victims around the world fall victim to influenza every year, yes, the garden varieties of flu, and more than 300,000 die.

We don't see that kind of information on the front page of the daily paper..."

This has been a clip from InFocus.

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