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The Government provided flu helpline and website to work well in England, Andy Burnham, secretary of Health said the figures show that more than 5,500 people had access to Tamiflu for its first day of operation.

More than 58,000 votes by the pandemic flu on Thursday, 89% of online courses which are antiviral drugs and 5584 were the Ministry of Health, said.

Mr. Burnham said: "These figures show that despite an unprecedented demand for the national pandemic influenza, the phone line and website are good that once again the wonder of the NHS and elastic their health professionals they are.

"People who need antiviral drugs can be easily and quickly with the new service is free and GPS in the care of patients with high-risk groups, and other diseases.

"We are very pleased that the flu is that the work done, but we are also aware that the system is in its infancy, and that the transaction will close."

New advertising for the service were identified as part of a £ 2.4 million public awareness campaign. The print ads in detail the symptoms of swine flu, including fever or high temperature over 38C or 100.4F.

Advertise reminded that patients should contact their doctor, but as the use of services for pandemic flu, if they have a serious underlying disease, if they are pregnant, if they have a sick child under one year when her condition, or your child is suddenly much more serious, or if your condition is worse, after seven days (five days for a child).

Physicians in Stockholm, Sweden continues to treat pregnant women victims of swine influenza Pentleton Sharon, 26, as "stable but critical '

It was Cross house Hospital in Kilmarnock, Scotland, at the Karolinska University Hospital in extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) after a rare and severe reaction to the virus and develop respiratory distress of the adult.

The beds are not the procedure, blood and oxygen to the body before it is again. Staff in Stockholm said that the treatment will last several days, while the rest of the lung.

Note: The National Pandemic Flu Service is a self-care service that will asses your symptoms and, if required, provide an authorisation number which can be used to collect antiviral medication from a local collection point. For those who do not have internet access, the same service can be accessed by telephone on:

* Telephone: 0800 1 513 100
* Minicom: 0800 1 513 200

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