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Published online 21 May 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.501
Column: Muse
When is a pandemic not a pandemic?
Arguments about the pandemic status of swine flu are a distraction from tackling the outbreak, warns Declan Butler.
As the influenza A (H1N1) swine flu virus fans out across the globe, there can be little doubt that we are already in the early stages of a flu pandemic. Nonetheless, there is considerable resistance to calling it a pandemic.
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