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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

3 swine flu cases found in Vietnam; Philippines total hits 21

By Susan Cunningham, June 1, 3:13 PM, www.examiner.com.


Vietnam's first three swine flu victims, all now hospitalized in Saigon, recently returned from the United States. The latest are a Vietnamese-American and her nine-year-old son.

The number of cases in the Philippines hit 21 on Monday. The country has the region's largest number of people infected with the human-to-human-borne virus, more accurately called H1N1. All but one are Filipinos and most of them had recently visited North America.

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