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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No-Show Hil

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Published May 4, 2009 at 6:34 p.m.

Secretary of State Clinton called in sick Monday, but it wasn’t H1N1 or swine flu or whatever the government is calling it lately ... Clinton “suffers from mild allergies” that were acting up, so she was resting up in New York and will be back at Foggy Bottom Tuesday, said State Department spokesman Robert Wood. “She’s just recovering from the allergies,” Wood said ... - Richard Sisk ...

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New York’s Lab (Don’t Ask Where It Is) Readies Its Own Tests for the New Strain

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Published May 3, 2009 at 10:43 p.m.
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The city’s biothreat response testing lab now has the equipment to let it confirm the presence of the new A(H1N1) swine flu in six hours instead of having to send the samples to Atlanta ...

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FLU TWIST FOR NYC

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Published May 3, 2009 at 4:21 a.m.

The swine flu, responsible for more than 100 deaths in Mexico, is spreading around the Big Apple in a new way ... Officials confirmed yesterday that there was at least one person sick with the bug who hadn't been to Mexico and wasn't linked to St ...

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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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MAN UP, BIDEN!

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Published May 1, 2009 at 9:10 a.m.

Vice President Joe Biden yesterday jammed his foot -- make that a pig's foot -- into his big mouth again, when he said he's telling family members to stay off planes and subways because of swine flu ... Biden's latest bone-headed remark ignited a ...

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Specter's 'One Tough Hombre'

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Published April 29, 2009 at 9:16 a.m.

President Obama hailed party-swapping Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter as “one tough hombre” this morning, welcoming the new Democrat to the fold in a White House news conference ... Specter pledged to maintain his independence, but his abandonment of the Republican Party gives Obama a filibuster-proof 60 votes on most of his top agenda items, including, education, green energy, science policy and health care ... And while Specter said he’d stick with some of his more conservative views, he

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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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Flu Scare is Science Scare

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Published April 27, 2009 at 10:48 a.m.

President Obama declared swine flu is “not a cause for alarm” this morning even as he held up the disease scare as a reason to get better at science ... “If there was ever a day that reminded us of our shared stake in science and research, it’s today,” Obama told the National Academy of Sciences ... “We are closely monitoring the emerging cases of swine flu in the United States,” Obama said, a day after the White House held a press conference to detail the massive federal response

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