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No need to pack your pandemic pantry, says Dr Jodie McVernon

22 May 2009, 1.42 PM
No need to pack your pandemic pantry, says Dr Jodie McVernon

Dr Jodie McVernon says it was inevitable that swine flu would eventually hit our shores following confirmation this morning of three cases in Melbourne. Yet she assures Melbourne residents that these cases are not an indication of “wider community risk”.

Dr McVernon says surveillance measures put in place by the Department of Human Services upon the outbreak of swine flu aided containment of the virus to three boys from one family.