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Brazil registers 899 swine flu deaths...

Sep. 16, 2009
Brazil registers 899 swine flu deaths...(Second column, 10th story, link)Related stories:JAB FEAR: Flu experts gear up for pandemic of vaccine worry...Body bags disrupt Canada's flu-readiness message...
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GENEVA, Switzerland, June 23 (UPI) -- The World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, says there have been 231 confirmed deaths worldwide attributed to the H1N1 virus.

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Veterans etch the names of their friends inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War on May 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. UPI/Pat Benic