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Page last updated at 17:12 GMT, Thursday, 30 April 2009 18:12 UK

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In pictures: Swine flu concern

A man works in a surgical masks factory on April 30, 2009 in Vernet.

The EU has urged Europeans not to panic as health ministers discussed ways of containing the virus.

A Navy doctor speaks to people at the Mexico City Navy Hospital waiting to be checked for flu-like symptoms on April 29, 2009

Large numbers of people with flu-like symptoms wait to be tested in Mexico, which remains the country worst-affected by swine flu.

A swiss woman waits, surrounded by French Red Cross members, as she arrives from Mexico on April 30, 2009

A woman recently returned from Mexico waits surrounded by Red Cross workers at an airport in France, which has proposed a continent-wide travel advisory for Mexico.

In Britain, an advertising campaign has been launched to raise awareness of the virus, as eight people are diagnosed with the illness.

An Egyptian butcher carries a pig in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, April 30, 2009.

In its response to the emergence of swine flu, Egypt has begun a mass slaughter of thousands of pigs although experts say the disease is not spread by eating pork.

Chinese schoolchildren learn the proper ways to wash their hands in Hefei, eastern China"s Anhui province on April 30, 2009.

China has reported no cases yet but these children in Anhui province are taking no chances as they learn the best way of washing their hands.

Contract staff of the Port Health department stand to attention before a shift change at the Hong Kong Airport ask passengers to fill in health declaration forms on arrival in Hong Kong on April 30, 2009.

In neighbouring Hong Kong, which has bad memories of the 2003 Sars outbreak, staff of the Port Health department stand to attention at the airport before a shift change.

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