Financial markets gyrated on Monday amid escalating fears that a swine flu outbreak that began in Mexico could turn into a global pandemic, as the WHO raised its assessment of the H1N1 virus to a ”significant risk” and increased its alert to an unprecedented phase four. Governments stepped up their responses as an EU health official warned against all but non-essential travel to America.

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