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W.H.O. May Raise Alert Level as Swine Flu Cases Leap in Japan [1]

The number of swine flu cases in Japan soared over the weekend, raising the likelihood that the World Health Organization will soon have to raise its pandemic alert level to 6, the highest level.

On Sunday, the assistant principal of a school in Queens died after being hospitalized with swine flu. It was the sixth flu-related death in the United States and the first in New York State.

Publication Date: 
18/05/2009
Donald G. McNeil Jr. [2]
Planet Ark (Australia) [3]
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Animal Diseases [4], Health Effects [5], Health [6], Preventive Medicine [7], WHO [8], China [9], Hong Kong [10], Japan [11], Turkey [12], United States Of America (US) [13], India [14], New York [15]
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