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Flu Spreads, Kills US Man

Australia, Japan see cases

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted May 10, 2009 7:30 AM CDT

(Newser) – Health officials have confimed that a 30-year-old Washington state man died last week of the H1N1 flu strain, raising its US death toll to three, Reuters reports. He had suffered from heart problems. The disease has now been found in some 2,200 Americans and... Read full story »

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