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source: A 19-year-old man has become the fourth person in the UK to die after contracting swine flu. The teenager from south London, who had serious underlying health problems, tested positive for the virus after his death on Wednesday and is the first person to die with swine flu in the capital.

The government said last week that it was focusing on treatment for an epidemic expected to peak at 100,000 new infections a day by the end of August.

NHS Direct has been swamped with 4,000 calls a day in the past week from people seeking information on the H1N1 virus. NHS Direct has fielded more than 124,000 calls about swine flu since the virus emerged in Mexico in April, while 750,000 people have consulted its online ” cold and flu symptoms checker “.

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