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Swine flu pandemic over, says world health body
"The new H1N1 virus has largely run its course."
The swine flu pandemic has been declared officially over by the World Health Organization.
The body said it was moving to the "post-pandemic phase" after many countries, including the UK, had scaled down their emergency measures.
WHO director general Dr Margaret Chan said the virus had "largely run its course".
But the pandemic - the first for 40 years - proved much less deadly than many had feared.
In the UK, more than 450 people died, but that was well short of the 65,000 predicted as the worst-case scenario.