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The spread of the swine flu virus — H1N1 — is the first global influenza epidemic in 41 years. But the World Health Organization says the pandemic is only ‘moderate in severity.’ The World Health Organization on Thursday acknowledged what many health experts have been saying for weeks: The outbreak of the novel H1N1 virus is a pandemic.
