Inside Story – The swine flu threat

The UN has warned that the virus has the potential to become a pandemic, but said the world was better prepared than ever to deal with the threat. Is the threat as serious as it may seem? Is this the pandemic that could wipe out half the world’s population? Or is it a world wide panic exacerbated by the media?

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