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'Swine flu will kill Europeans', says EU official
Europe is braced for thousands of deaths from swine flu as member states launch pandemic action plans in an effort to combat the virus.EU health ministers are meeting today in Luxembourg in the wake of the World Health Organization's decision to raise the alert to level five on its six-point scale, warning that a pandemic is "imminent". Robert Madelin, director-general for health and consumer policy at the European Commission, said the EU expects fatalities as the virus spreads, but it cannot estimate how many people will be affected. "Yes, people will die from this. It is not a question of whether people will die, but more a question of how many. Will it be hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands," Madelin said in an interview with Reuters.
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