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Poverty, Tendency to Self-Medicate Help Drive Up Flu Deaths in Mexico

May. 5, 2009
MEXICO CITY, May 4 -- Toward the start of Mexico's swine flu outbreak on April 24, Ã
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SACRAMENTO, May 1 (UPI) -- Officials are reported looking into the possibility that some of the so-called swine flu believed to spread from Mexico actually came from California.

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SMITHFIELD, Va., April 28 (UPI) -- U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc. says it has not found any signs that a swine flu outbreak is connected to its two Mexican plants.

Mexico: Swine flu death toll reaches 149

MEXICO CITY, April 27 (UPI) -- The death toll in Mexico blamed on the contagious swine-flu virus has reached at least 149, Mexican officials said Monday.

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MEXICO CITY, April 24 (UPI) -- Mexican health officials Friday ordered schools closed around the capital for fear of worsening a swine flu outbreak that may have killed as many as 60 people.

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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler