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The World Health Organization has just raised the pandemic alert for swine influenza to level four out of six. Ten people from New South Wales are now carrying the virus and the worldwide suspected death toll stands at 152. We have had alerts before from both SARS and the bird flu, so what is different this time? And if this becomes a pandemic, what are the consequences?

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