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The Health Protection Agency (HPA) says the new swine flu virus is highly contagious and is spreading from person to person.
Swine flu scatters in the same way as ordinary colds and flu.
The virus is scatter through the droplets that come out of the mouth and nose when someone sneezes or coughs.
If someone sneezes or coughs or and they don't cover it, those droplets to be able to scatter about 1 metre. If you're close to the someone you might breathe them in.

Or, if someone sneezes or coughs into their hands, those droplets and the virus within them are easily transferred to surfaces that the person catches, such as door handles, hand rails, telephones and keyboards. If you catch these surfaces and catch your face, the virus are able to enter your system, and you can become infected.