The Department of Health (DH), in the United Kingdom, has issued an information leaflet on swine flu and launched a television advertising campaign to give people advice on how to prevent the disease from spreading. Swine flu is a respiratory disease and has some elements of a virus found in pigs. Swine flu has now been confirmed in a number of countries and it is spreading from human to human, which could lead to what is known as a pandemic flu outbreak.
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