PNG braces for flu outbreak

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Updated May 7, 2009 15:33:43

The Papua New Guinea government has stepped up efforts to detect and prevent swine flu from entering its country. The World Health Organisation says the swine flu virus has spread to 20 countries and killed more than 40 people.

Presenter: Firmin Nanol
Speaker: Mark Mauludu, PNG's Acting Health Secretary; Alexander Edmund Rosewell, epidemiologist with the WHO's PNG office

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