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Fed: Health experts meet to respond to swine-flu threat


26 Apr 2009 1:23 PM

Australian health authorities are in talks to decide how best to protect the country from a pig flu outbreak that's killed up to 81 people in Mexico.

The virus has already spread across the border to the United States .. which has reported nearly a dozen cases .. and a BA flight attendant's being treated in a London hospital.

Australian officials are urging anyone who's returned from Mexico with flu-like symptoms since March .. to seek medical advice.