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Britain says swine flu vaccination to start in October

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s swine fluvaccination program is to start in October for at-risk groups, Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson said on Thursday, with most vaccines coming from drugs firm GlaxoSmithKline.
A first batch of 300,000 vaccines will arrive this month with 54.6 million expected by December, Donaldson said, adding that exact supply levels would depend on [...]

UK’s attempts to stop swine flu called flawed

AP reports: 
 
LONDON – Flu experts are looking very closely at Britain — and some have decided that the U.K.’s swine flu-fighting tactics are seriously off the mark and may be hiding a much larger outbreak.
Since Britain has the most confirmed swine flu cases in Europe, how the outbreak develops here will have a significant influence on whether the World [...]