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How did Australia deal with swine flu winter?

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Australia is just coming to the end of its first winter with swine flu and doctors there say that the virus has put hospitals under immense pressure.

There have been fewer than 200 deaths - but so many patients needed intensive care that many hospitals had to cancel non-urgent surgery.

The BBC's Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh reports from Australia on what lessons Britain could learn from winter down under.

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