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" Health secretary Andy Burnham has urged the public to remain sensible over the spread of swine flu in the UK. Mr Burnham explained that an exaggerated public panic would put unnecessary stress on the NHS and insisted that the government is well prepared for the virus. &amp;#039;It is very important for everybody to keep a sense of perspective,&amp;#039; Mr Burnham told the Observer. &amp;#039;It has been a mild virus in the vast majority of cases, with relatively mild symptoms from which people recover fully fairly quickly.&amp;#039; He added: &amp;#039;If people are made unnecessarily anxious, it makes the lives of NHS professionals, who are already under enormous pressure, far more difficult as people become unduly worried. &amp;#039;People should be assured that we have been planning our response to a pandemic for a long time.&amp;#039; The health minister&amp;#039;s comments come before expected criticism of the government&amp;#039;s handling of the disease. A House of Lords report is expected to attack ministers for failing to adhere to their own timetable for pandemic response. A national swine flu helpline was set up last Thursday, but Whitehall sources indicate that peers will bemoan a perceived slow reaction to the pandemic from the Department of Health. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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