FLU-DEATH KIN EYEING $40M SUIT

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Published Aug. 12, 2009 at 2:16 a.m.

Relatives of the city's first swine-flu fatality say they are ready to sue for $40 million ... Mitchell Wiener's widow, Bonnie, and his three sons, Adam, Jordan and Farrell, filed a notice of claim alleging the city was negligent in dealing with the ...

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2nd Death in New York City Linked to Swine Flu

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Published May 24, 2009 at 7:40 p.m.
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Like the first New Yorker to die of the virus, the woman from Queens, who was in her 50s, had an underlying health condition ...

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Big City: In Outbreak, Facing Burden With Grace

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Published May 3, 2009 at 10:42 p.m.
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Parents with children at Public School 177 in Queens, which serves special-needs students, faced extra burdens when the school shut down in the swine flu outbreak ...

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CITY CAN HANDLE 1 MIL ILL

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Published May 1, 2009 at 9:15 a.m.

The city can treat more than 1 million New Yorkers with drugs if the swine-flu outbreak gets much worse, officials said yesterday ... "Within hours, we could stock every hospital in New York City with enough Tamiflu to treat every severely ill ...

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BANDI-DON'T: CITY OFFICIAL'S APOLOGY

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Published May 1, 2009 at 8:05 a.m.

A Mayor Bloomberg appointee said lo siento yesterday for writing that swine flu might make the country "get a grip on its banditos." ... Betsy Perry, of the City Commission on Women's Issues, apologized to the mayor for her anti-Mexican remarks made ...

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FIRST VICTIM DIES IN US FROM SWINE FLU

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Published April 29, 2009 at 9:40 a.m.

HOUSTON -- Health officials said Wednesday that a nearly 2-year-old Mexican boy is the first confirmed U.S. death from swine flu ... The child had traveled with family from Mexico City to Matamoros, Mexico and then to neighboring Brownsville, Texas ...

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FEVER ON RISE AT 'FLU' HS

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Published April 28, 2009 at 8:41 a.m.

City officials yesterday revealed 20 new confirmed cases of swine flu at a Queens high school -- and warned that many more victims are in the pipeline ... The new cases include 19 St. Francis Prep students and one teacher diagnosed with the ...

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