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W.H.O. Says It Plans to Stop Tracking Swine Flu Cases

Jul. 16, 2009
Epidemiologists have pointed out that, in reality, millions have had swine flu, usually in a mild form, so numbers of laboratory-confirmed cases were actually meaningless.
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