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Swine flu cases on the rise

Swine flu numbers are not just growing, but have quadrupled in just a fortnight.

33 people in Northern Ireland have now tested positive and the Health Minister says it's possibl,e with an Autumn surge of the virus, that up to a third of our population could get sick. He's also revealed that the minimum cost of dealing with the pandemic locally will run to tens of millions of pounds. He expects the Executive to make that money available to his department. Conor Macauley reports.

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