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The World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic
Thursday Acirc the first global flu epidemic in 41 years Acirc as
infections in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America
and elsewhere climbed to nearly 30,000 cases.
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Doctors and nurses must be protected so they can treat others who
become sick, the health group cautions. But a vaccine against the
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