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Health Officials Begin to Ease Public Alerts About Swine Flu

May. 5, 2009
Mexican officials said they would lower the public alert over swine flu and allow most businesses to reopen.
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch